Nslookup query

[sshabir]

HI All,

I am wondering if someone can point me to the right direction.

I have 2 domain controllers in our network.

On one DC I can run nslookup for both servers with ip address and host name fine but with the other

server if I do nslookup with a server ip address I get the below error message but works fine with hostname.

Can't find the ip address xxxx. Non existent domain.

Thanks

Shoaib

[mavhc]

What DNS servers do you have installed, (how) are they linked? What DNS server is each server using?

[sshabir]

I have both Dns server installed on Windows server 2019. Both are linked by a trust. Each dns server is using each other as preferred DNS server and itself as 'Alternative dns server.

[Koldov]

Can't be much help here as I had a similar problem a while back, but never really fixed it as it was just a minor annoyance and didn't really seem to break anything.

 

Not helped by the fact that DHCP was not being done on the servers, but by the switches...

 

My old thread might help, it seemed to be something to do with 'Reverse DNS'.

 

http://www.edugeek.net/forums/windows-server-2012/207474-nslookup-fails-reverse-dns-issue.html

[sshabir]

Thanks Koldov. Very helpful!