Advice

Barry Margolin barmar at genuity.net
Thu Jun 22 23:15:16 UTC 2000


In article <tQv45.1362$mG6.10223 at typhoon.columbus.rr.com>,
Steve P <sparsons at remove.columbus.rr.com> wrote:
>Ive configured the latest version of named to be a secondary
>server for about 200 domain names.  Locally all of these domain
>names resolve find , now if I try to resolve anything external
>it hangs then fails.  Ive used ndc to see what is going on, I see it
>querying root servers , etc.. But like I stated I can not resolve
>anything external..  Ive been stuck on this for a couple days now
>so anything that should be too obvious ive already gone thru..
>Im hoping these symptoms will set off a flag for someone and
>it just being something stupid on my part..

Maybe you have a firewall blocking the outside DNS packets.  You might need
to use the 'query-source address * port 53' option to force external
queries to use source port 53, which your firewall probably allows in.

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Barry Margolin, barmar at genuity.net
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