Help please: BIND 8.1.2 cannot resolve external names

Mitchell Broome mbroome at roman.net
Mon Jun 14 19:33:06 UTC 1999


do you have a cache setup?  something like:

zone "." in {
	type hint;
	file "root.cache";
};

where root.cache is a list of root servers to query.

On Sun, 13 Jun 1999, Hellion wrote:

> Hello out there.  I am having a problem setting up a BIND 8.1.2 server on a
> RedHat Linux 5.2 system.
> I'm trying to migrate a DNS setup from a FreeBSD box running BIND 4.9.3 and
> as far as I can tell,
> I have everything moved over correctly.  When I do an nslookup on any name 
> within the domains
> that the server is actually serving, I get a result, nice and quick.  But! 
> Whenever I try to resolve a
> name that is external to my domain (e.g. www.redhat.com), the request times
> out.  When I turn on
> debugging data from named, it appears that any request the server makes to 
> one of the root servers
> is ignored.  (I made sure that I had the latest version of the root.hints 
> file, too.)  There's a whole bunch
> of resend requests to various root servers in turn and never any replies.
>   What makes this extra frustrating is that the identical setup on the 
> FreeBSD box (well, except for
> the named.conf/named.boot formatting) works perfectly.  And when I say 
> identical, I mean I copied the
> DNS data files verbatim, converted the config file, took the FreeBSD box 
> off the net, and gave the 
> Linux box its hostname and IP address to test things out.
>   Anybody have any ideas as to what I might have done wrong?  A solution 
> will earn you my undying
> (well, slowly fading, at least) gratitude.
> 
> Elliott
> hellion at visi.com-or-elliott@virtualfund.com
> 



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