You misunderstand that it probably is trying to do a reverse lookup but your local dns server does not have any information. Here is how I do it:
1.) setup dnsmasq on a small ubuntu vm (this exercise left to the reader)
2.) edit /etc/dnsmasq.conf and add the dns servers for the remote sites/resource domain (assuming that they will answer your request of course) by tacking on lines that look like this at the end of the config:
server=/217.12.10.in-addr.arpa/10.12.217.10
so for 10.12.217.x ip addresses go to 10.12.217.10 (the dns server address for this subnet). I disable all dhcp options by commenting them out. Restart the service then use this machine as my dns host for scanning subnets.
Cheers!
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