reverse nslookup fails for single machine

Posted by matt wilkie on Server Fault See other posts from Server Fault or by matt wilkie
Published on 2010-02-23T19:15:12Z Indexed on 2010/04/20 21:24 UTC
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I have a computer on a windows Active Directory network for which reverse dns lookup fails. It doesn't matter which machine runs the lookup. The problem computer is a debian vm on a windows server 2003 host.

>nslookup wiki.dept
Server:  primary.internal.domain.org
Address:  192.111.222.44

Name:    wiki.dept.internal.domain.org
Address:  192.111.111.185


>nslookup 192.111.111.185
Server:  primary.internal.domain.org
Address:  192.111.222.44

*** primary.internal.domain.org can't find 192.111.111.185: Non-existent domain

Contents of /etc/resolv.conf on the debian guest:

nameserver 192.111.111.244
nameserver 192.111.222.44
search internal.domain.org

What is wrong? how do I get ip-to-name resolution to work for this machine? Thank you.

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