Slave server unable to lookup external addresses

[Kevin Darcy]

You list both a /etc/named.boot and a /etc/named.conf. With which are you
having the problem? I'll note that the named.boot has forwarding configured,
but the named.conf does not.


- Kevin

John F. Blyberg wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I just set up a slave server internally on our network, it copied down the
> files from the primary fine, and I can look up internal addresses perfectly,
> but anything outside of our lan does not work.  When I do an NSLOOKUP using
> the slave server on an external ip or address, it returns:
>
> (Normal lookup)
> Server:  fishnchips.lotusengineeringinc.com
> Address:  10.23.11.21
>
> *** Request to fishnchips.lotusengineeringinc.com timed-out
>
> (Reverse lookup)
> Server:  fishnchips.lotusengineeringinc.com
> Address:  10.23.11.21
>
> *** fishnchips.lotusengineeringinc.com can't find w.x.y.z: No response from
> server
>
> I'm wondering if I have an issue with authority?  Here are my config files,
> as you can see, we have 3 subnets, 10.23.11.0, 10.23.21.0, 10.23.31.0.  Both
> DNS servers reside in 10.23.11.0.
>
> [/etc/named.boot]
> directory /var/named
> forwarders      10.23.11.21 10.23.11.21
> cache           .                               db.cache
> primary         0.0.127.in-addr.arpa            db.127.0.0
> secondary       lotusengineeringinc.com
> slave.lotusengineeringinc.com
> secondary       11.23.10.in-addr.arpa           slave.10.23.11
> secondary       21.23.10.in-addr.arpa           slave.10.23.21
> secondary       31.23.10.in-addr.arpa           slave.10.23.31
> secondary       marco.com                       slave.marco.com
> slave
>
> [/etc/named.conf]
> options {
>         directory "/var/named";
>         query-source address * port 53;
> };
> zone "." {
>         type hint;
>         file "db.cache";
> };
> zone "0.0.127.IN-ADDR.ARPA"{
>         type master;
>         file "db.127.0.0";
> };
> zone "lotusengineeringinc.com"{
>         type slave;
>         file "slave.lotusengineeringinc.com";
>         masters {10.23.11.5;};
> };
> zone "marco.com"{
>         type slave;
>         file "slave.marco.com";
>         masters {10.23.11.5;};
> };
> zone "11.23.10.IN-ADDR.ARPA"{
>         type slave;
>         file "slave.10.23.11";
>         masters {10.23.11.5;};
> };
> zone "21.23.10.IN-ADDR.ARPA"{
>         type slave;
>         file "slave.10.23.21";
>         masters {10.23.11.5;};
> };
> zone "31.23.10.IN-ADDR.ARPA"{
>         type slave;
>         file "slave.10.23.31";
>         masters {10.23.11.5;};
> };
> zone "128.158.207.IN-ADDR.ARPA"{
>         type slave;
>         file "slave.207.158.128";
>         masters {10.23.11.5;};
> };
>
> [/etc/resolv.conf]
> domain lotusengineering.com
> search com
> nameserver 10.23.11.21                         # I've tried pointing this to
> the primary too
>
> I'm close, but oh so far, any help would be appreciated, thanks
>
> John.