[ILUG] dhcpd/bind/lookup problems

[Ken Guest]

On 18 Jul 2001 12:22:59 +0100, David Ryan wrote:
> Have a look at - http://www.acmebw.com/askmrdns/bind-messages.html - for
> an explanation of most of the weird messages that BIND generates.
> 
> The entry for 'sysquery: nlookup error on ?' doesn't initially look like
> it relates directly to your problem unless . . . your DNS server doesn't
> have a zone file for 11.11.10.in-addr.arpa and then attempts to go find
> it and then discovers it doesn't have any forwarder details and so
> resorts to the root name servers and then discovers it doesn't even have
> the zone file for the root servers either.
> 
> Try the following :
> nslookup[CR]
> set type=ptr[CR]
> 5.11.11.10.in-addr.arpa[CR]

ok. I didn't do this exactly (as I'd left the printout of your email
behind in work), but I remembered the gist of it and found that
a nslookup on 10.11.11.5 did work.
So it seems that both reverse and forward lookups work fine from
inside nslookup but not via ping or during a dhcp conversation.

any ideas?

ken.