From: Shawn Bierman (BiermanS@METHODISTHEALTH.ORG)
Date: Thu Apr 22 2004 - 09:54:08 EDT
from the NT box run nslookup, you should see something like this:
( of course mine is UNIX so consider this)
root at sp202 in / > nslookup
Default Server: ns1.methodisthealth.org
Address: 160.37.191.131
>
Do you see the name and IP of your DNS there or does nslookup
hang/timeout?
-shawn
>>> Praveen.Kumar@CAHOOT.COM 4/22/04 4:29:17 AM >>>
Hi shawn,
Thanks for the info. I could progress a bit in configuring the
DNS.
As you said the bind has been installed and the named daemon is also
running. When i have configured one of the win2k box as a DNS client,
intially it was showing default servers not available, then i realised
that
i have not created a reverse(named.rev as mentioned in my
named.boot)lookup
file on the AIX box, once i have done that i was through with this
problem.
But now the problem is that, from the win2k box, if I give any hostname
to
resolve it says "can't find the server", even if i give the DNS server
name
also. Can someone let me know where am i going wrong.
TIA
Praveen.K
-----Original Message-----
From: Shawn Bierman [mailto:BiermanS@METHODISTHEALTH.ORG]
Sent: 21 April 2004 20:26
To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
Subject: Re: Configure DNS
Just making sure but did you install bind and start it up? bind
doesn't
run by default.
>>> Praveen.Kumar@CAHOOT.COM 4/21/04 6:13:39 AM >>>
Hi *,
I have an AIX server which i want configure as a DNS server,
and
this would be used by only 2-3 pc's. I have done the following to
configure
the same,
* Created a file named.boot under /etc, whose contents are
directory /etc
primary testitc.com named.data
primary in-addr.arpa named.rev
* Created a file named.data using the awk script given in
/usr/samples/tcpip
* Then changed the hostname to a fully qualified domain name
* Created the file resolv.conf under /etc with the following
entries
nameserver 127.0.0.1
domain testitc.com
but when i give nslookup it says "cannot find server.......:Server
failed"
Can some let me know where am i going wrong.
It would be great if someone can give steps to configure a DNS server.
This
is not for a Production environment,so only resolution of the hostname
is
sufficient.
TIA
Praveen.K
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