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by kevin

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Hi, I am still fairly new to setting up DNS on an NT server. I have most everything set up, with Name Servers and what not... However, when I do a nslookup "???.com", I am getting an old address, and "Can't find server name for address "my servers address", non-existent domain" "Server unknown". Can anyone point to what I could possibly be doing wrong. Thanks,Kevin

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by bkduke

Are you performing the nslookup on the NT server you have DNS running on? If so, have you changed the TCP/IP properties for the server to use itself as its DNS server?

Try performing a nslookup by itself. It should report what server it is configured to use. You can also tell it to use your new server with the directive: server new_dns_server_name. You can also do it on the same command line, ie. nslookup foo.bar.com ns.bar.com

Try stopping and restarting your DNS service.

Listyour domain:
nslookup
ls -d bar.com
exit

Sometimes nslookup will append an extra domain to the end of your query, yielding something like foo.bar.com.bar.com. If that happens just append a "." to the end of the dns name you are checking, ie "foo.bar.com."

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