[ILUG] DNS Problem

[Fergus Donohue]

Hi Ray,

Are you sure you're allowing queries from the relevant IP addresses in
the bind config? Is it listening on an interface apart from loopback? Is
there a router blocking access to the DNS/FTP?

They're my suggestions off hand,

Fergus.

Ray Dermody 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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