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by jbucklaew

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I have a single Win 2K server. DNS is running and I can resolve names (ping "name" replys with address). When I try NSLOOKUP at cmd prompt I get a message "Can't find server name for address 192.168.1.1 (address of DNS server)".

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by deltree

The reason for this is your DNS databas does not have a PTR record for the DNS server. Probably because your PTR zone is not configured to allow dynamic updates.
when you type nslookup and no argument, it queries its configured DNS server for the name that corresponds with 192.168.1.1

To fix, create a PTR record for the DNS server, or turn on dynamic updates on the PTR zone, and have the adapter dynamically do it with an ipconfig /registerdns command.

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