Could it be the redhat firewall? If you installed this it would deny you
access to the DNS server. But it would allow you to do lookups from itself.
Try stoping the firewall script and then doing a remote lookup.
Thats all I can think of without more info.
Aj
On Monday 09 July 2001 08:31, you wrote:
> Hi All,
> I am having problems with my secondary DNS server. It is running
> RH7.1 with Bind 8.2.3. When I do an NSLOOKUP from the server it
> resolves IP addresses no problem but from another machine it
> doesnt work and says no response from server (its pings so its up).
> I also have a monitoring tool that tells us what services a particular
> server is running and it shows as DNS and FTP as down even
> though the daemons are running. I have recompiled Bind but to no
> avail.
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> R
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