an old classic qestion - one for the pro's

[Guest]

Hi

firstly i apologise because i asked this question like a year ago on here
and some one (ace) aswered it for me, but hey i've slept since then,I also
plan to take my server 2003 mcp next week and this is relly bugging me

so here is it - you run nslookup and get non existant domain

like this

C:\>nslookup
server01.local.lan
192.168.1.120

server01.local.lan cannot find nslookup - non existant domain

now i have a reverse zone created,with ptr records for
120.1.168.192.in-addr.arpa for host server01.local.lan and it still gives
above error

I am sure someone will know this i just cannot remember for the life of me
how to fix it

thanks in advance

si

 

[Jeff Cochran]

Hi

firstly i apologise because i asked this question like a year ago on here
and some one (ace) aswered it for me, but hey i've slept since then,I also
plan to take my server 2003 mcp next week and this is relly bugging me

so here is it - you run nslookup and get non existant domain

like this

C:\>nslookup
server01.local.lan
192.168.1.120

server01.local.lan cannot find nslookup - non existant domain

now i have a reverse zone created,with ptr records for
120.1.168.192.in-addr.arpa for host server01.local.lan and it still gives
above error

I am sure someone will know this i just cannot remember for the life of me
how to fix it

I thought you got this if you had no A record for the domain itself,
essentially an empty host name record.

Jeff

 

[Kevin D. Goodknecht Sr. [MVP]]

In

Hi

firstly i apologise because i asked this question like a
year ago on here and some one (ace) aswered it for me,
but hey i've slept since then,I also plan to take my
server 2003 mcp next week and this is relly bugging me

so here is it - you run nslookup and get non existant
domain

like this

C:\>nslookup
server01.local.lan
192.168.1.120

server01.local.lan cannot find nslookup - non existant
domain

now i have a reverse zone created,with ptr records for
120.1.168.192.in-addr.arpa for host server01.local.lan
and it still gives above error

I am sure someone will know this i just cannot remember
for the life of me how to fix it

Maybe this is a typo, but you are doing a DNS lookup for "nslookup". Hence,
the error says:
server01.local.lan cannot find "nslookup" - non existant domain
See:
W:\>nslookup
Default Server: kjweb.lsaol.com
Address: 192.168.0.2

nslookup

Server: kjweb.lsaol.com
Address: 192.168.0.2

*** kjweb.lsaol.com can't find nslookup: Non-existent domain
Once you type nslookup and hit enter, it is running in interactive mode, it
is unnecessary to type nslookup again.

 

[Ace Fekay [MVP]]

In

Hi

firstly i apologise because i asked this question like a year ago on
here and some one (ace) aswered it for me, but hey i've slept since
then,I also plan to take my server 2003 mcp next week and this is
relly bugging me

so here is it - you run nslookup and get non existant domain

like this

C:\>nslookup
server01.local.lan
192.168.1.120

server01.local.lan cannot find nslookup - non existant domain

now i have a reverse zone created,with ptr records for
120.1.168.192.in-addr.arpa for host server01.local.lan and it still
gives above error

I am sure someone will know this i just cannot remember for the life
of me how to fix it

thanks in advance

si

Hi Simon,

I don't remember the post, but it seems what Kevin is saying is once you
invoke nslookup (without any paramters), it goes into batch mode, identified
by the ">" symbol. After that you type in the domain or IP you want to
query, or you can change the query type, etc. If you happen to type in
'nslookup' again, it will be trying to resolve that name, unless Kevin said,
it's a typo??


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[Ace Fekay [MVP]]

In

I thought you got this if you had no A record for the domain itself,
essentially an empty host name record.

Jeff

Is that true? I need to test this one. It honestly looks like a typo or bad
command entry sequence.

Ace

 

[Jeff Cochran]

In

Is that true? I need to test this one. It honestly looks like a typo or bad
command entry sequence.

Couldn't tell you why I remember this, and it may not be true.
Somewhere in the bowels of my mind and the closets of our building is
an old Sparcstation I seem to remember this from. I don't have a
domain missing an A record to test, but I can set one up when I get
back to work.

Jeff

 

[Ace Fekay [MVP]]

In

Couldn't tell you why I remember this, and it may not be true.
Somewhere in the bowels of my mind and the closets of our building is
an old Sparcstation I seem to remember this from. I don't have a
domain missing an A record to test, but I can set one up when I get
back to work.

Jeff

I was going to try it tomorrow on one my classroom machines. I'm just going
to delete the LdapIpAddress record and try it with nslookup before netlogon
re-registers it.

If you beat me to it, let me know...

Ace

 

[Ace Fekay [MVP]]

In Ace Fekay [MVP] <PleaseSubstituteMyActualFirstName&[email protected]>
made a post then I commented below

I just tried it. What I did was create a zone called test.com. I didn't
create the blank domain record, but did create a host called www. Nslookup
just gave me a blank domain name without an IP.

Without the blank domain record:

test.com

Server: london.nwtraders.msft
Address: 192.168.5.200

Name: test.com

With a blank domain record:

test.com

Server: london.nwtraders.msft
Address: 192.168.5.200

Name: test.com
Address: 192.168.4.200

Then what Kevin did:

nslookup

Server: london.nwtraders.msft
Address: 192.168.5.200

*** london.nwtraders.msft can't find nslookup: Non-existent domain


Ace

 

[Ace Fekay [MVP]]

In

Hi

firstly i apologise because i asked this question like a year ago on
here and some one (ace) aswered it for me, but hey i've slept since
then,I also plan to take my server 2003 mcp next week and this is
relly bugging me

so here is it - you run nslookup and get non existant domain

like this

C:\>nslookup
server01.local.lan
192.168.1.120

server01.local.lan cannot find nslookup - non existant domain

now i have a reverse zone created,with ptr records for
120.1.168.192.in-addr.arpa for host server01.local.lan and it still
gives above error

I am sure someone will know this i just cannot remember for the life
of me how to fix it

thanks in advance

si

Simon, can you repeat the results, this time using:
nslookup -d2

I want to see exactly what is being queried.

Thanks,
Ace

 

[Guest]

Hi

First of all thanks for getting involved guys - have to congratulate Kevin -
you hit the nail on the head the first time i run it i dont get the error -
how stupid forgot about interactive mode

this problem does occurr when there is no reverse lookup zone and ptr record
for the server - this is the question ace answered for me many moons ago.
This happens because when you run nslookup it does a reverse lookup, if there
is no reverse zone - the error occurrs

The reason this was confusing me is i made sure i had the reverse zone and
ptr record and it still gave the error!

Anyway knew you guys would sort this out - many thanks

 

[Guest]

Hi

Ace - i will run the command you suggest but i think we have resolved it
with kevin sugegstion

one other thing i meant to ask is what do you guys reckon to the new
newsgroup format

personally i think it is almost impossible to use, the old format was by far
superior not sure whose idea this foramt was but they need a pay cut!!!

this is the first time i have visited the new newsgroup,mainly cus i couldnt
find the right group!!

just thoug i'd ask what everyone else thinks

si

 

[Jeff Cochran]

I got similar results, except when I didn't create a reverse domain or
PTR record, then I got the non-existent domain error.

Good to know.

Jeff

 

[Ace Fekay [MVP]]

In

I got similar results, except when I didn't create a reverse domain or
PTR record, then I got the non-existent domain error.

Good to know.

Jeff

Yes, cool!
Cheers!

Ace

 

[Ace Fekay [MVP]]

In

Hi

Ace - i will run the command you suggest but i think we have resolved
it with kevin sugegstion

one other thing i meant to ask is what do you guys reckon to the new
newsgroup format

personally i think it is almost impossible to use, the old format was
by far superior not sure whose idea this foramt was but they need a
pay cut!!!

this is the first time i have visited the new newsgroup,mainly cus i
couldnt find the right group!!

just thoug i'd ask what everyone else thinks

si

:

No problem for the help, we're all here to help! Don't worry about running
the -d2, no need to now.

As for the format? You mean the web-based format for the newsgroups? It's
WAY EASIER to use a news client, such as Outlook Express. Just create a new
news account, point to news.microsoft.com for the server, and choose what
groups you want to subscribe to. You can also watch threads and search thru
them easily, add signatures, etc, as well. That's how we keep track of all
the news postings. THe web-based method is too limited and lacks
functionality, before and after any changes that were apparently made.

Ace

 

[Jonathan de Boyne Pollard]

MF> It's WAY EASIER to use a news client, such as Outlook Express. Just
MF> create a new news account, point to news.microsoft.com for the
MF> server, and choose what groups you want to subscribe to. You can also
MF> watch threads and search thru them easily, add signatures, etc, as
MF> well. That's how we keep track of all the news postings. THe
MF> web-based method is too limited and lacks functionality, before and
MF> after any changes that were apparently made.

Seconded. (-: