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Nslookup display

Nslookup display

I am sitting at the DNS server 10.25.17.11 and issuing NSlookup and getting the following:

C:\Documents and Settings\XX.YYI>nslookup dc1.YYcom
*** Can't find server name for address 10.25.17.11: Non-existent domain
Server:  UnKnown
Address:  10.25.17.11

Name:    dc1.YY.com
Address:  10.25.17.11


can you tell where the issue is?

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is it mandotory to have Reverse lookup zone and the PTR record in order to nslookup work properly?

The error it throws should be considered a warning rather than a hard-error. It will still successfully lookup names (and IPs), but it will always fail the check when starting without both A and PTR records.

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It is possible to actually live quite happily without reverse lookups in simple setups.

-- sorry - typo...
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so if I just type Nslookup by itself. it will take it as typing Nslookup IPaddress?

If you run nslookup on it's own it will open the nslookup prompt. It's just nslookup, as a program, does two checks whenever you connect to a DNS server, it looks for the Host (A) record for the name, and the Pointer (PTR) record for the IP.

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thanks guys!!