Help please: BIND 8.1.2 cannot resolve external names

[Joseph S D Yao]

> 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.  ...

Are you behind a firewall?

Was there a "forwarders" statement in the old "named.boot" that didn't
make it into the "named.conf"?

Can you show us those files?

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