Re: DNS Lookups.

David Payer ( (no email) )
Mon, 26 Jan 1998 11:39:10 -0600

This happened to us as well when we took over the responsibility for our
own name service. The upstream provider did not make a switch until I found
out that some of the new domains were simply not seen by his name server.

Oh well, I seem to learn something new everyday.

David Payer
www.ia-omni.com

> Seth Crimmins wrote:
> >
> > >If I nslookup www.westelcom.com, it returns 208.148.51.11.
> > >If I nslookup 208.148.51.11, it returns non-existent host/domain.
> > >
> > >Using nslookup, if I set server to ns.westelcom.com or ns2.
> > >it will not resolve 208.148.50.2 or .3.
> >
> > What do you supose this means?
>
> Most likely that your DNS server isn't the authoritive
> in-arpa DNS server. Your upstream might be authorative for
> it and may require the information for it to work correctly.
>
> --
> Dale E. Reed Jr.