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[avi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Avi Schwartz)]

Hi,

In my small network, I set one machine (10.23.20.1) to be the
firewall/print server/caching DNS.  All the machines in the network have
their name server set to 10.23.20.1 via /etc/resolv.conf:

nameserver 10.23.20.1

The problem I am having is that when I run nslookup I get the following
error:

*** Can't find server name for address 10.23.20.1: Non-existent
host/domain
*** Default servers are not available

On the other hand, if I comment out the nameserver line from
/etc/resolv.conf I can have the following session:

eahorse:/etc # nslookup
Default Server:  seahorse
Address:  0.0.0.0
> server 10.23.20.1
Default Server:  [10.23.20.1]
Address:  10.23.20.1
> www.yahoo.com
Server:  [10.23.20.1]
Address:  10.23.20.1
Non-authoritative answer:
Name:    www.yahoo.akadns.net
Addresses:  216.32.74.52, 216.32.74.53, 216.32.74.54, 216.32.74.55
          216.32.74.50, 216.32.74.51
Aliases:  www.yahoo.com

> seahorse:/etc # 

The strange thing is that only nslookup complains, all other programs
seem to work just fine.  So the question is what is causing nslookup to
error out in the first example and can I fix it?

Thanks,
Avi

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