Re: DNS

[ksemat at eahd.or.ug]

On Wed, 21 Jun 2000, Bill Sangiwa wrote:

> Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 18:21:25 +0300 (EAT)
> From: Bill Sangiwa <bsangiwa at twiga.com>
> To: ksemat at eahd.or.ug
> Cc: afnog at afnog.org
> Subject: Re: DNS
> 
> On Tue, 20 Jun 2000 ksemat at eahd.or.ug wrote:
> 
> > Hello everyone,
> > I am called Noah and I work with Charles Musisi at the East African Help
> > Desk.
> > I have a problem on which I would like your help.
> > I have a domain eahd.or.ug for which it is its own primary it has stub
> > zones wawa and alpha however alpha uses the same IP as that of eahd.or.ug
> > itself.
> > Now the problem is that the DNS tends to time out when I do nslookup
> 
> how does your resolv.conf looks like? is dns server working correctly?
>my resolv.conf looks like this
search eahd.or.ug
nameserver 216.129.132.208 
> > It times out on reverse lookups yet I have an entry in the reverse files
> > pointing to eahd.or.ug. However I am not the SOA for the reverse zone
> > just load them from the master server.
> > Thank you all for your help in advance.
> 
> you're not owning a whole Class Address (classful ways) and so will be
> difficult (i believe) to have you delegated the in-addr.arpa for
> 216.129.132.x ip range ur allocated right now.
> True I don't know much about this but isn't there a way to do it as far
as the concept of CIDR is concerned? If it is the source of the problem.
> 
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Sematimba Noah
Network Administrator
Uganda Online
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