Bind Designated as Root Server?....
Danny Mayer
mayer at gis.net
Sat Dec 29 06:12:55 UTC 2001
You need to set forwarders in the named.conf file. You are using a private
address space and your BIND server can't directly query the external
nameservers. Set your forwarders to query a nameserver that can access
the external network for non-local addresses.
Danny
At 08:32 AM 12/28/01, Raheel Hussain wrote:
>Thanks to Mr. William Stacy, Danny Mayer, Joseph S D, Barry Margolin,
>
>I got Bind 8.2.5 running properly, but having some problems
>
>when in the Dos Prompt , I Write the command
>
>nslookup yahoo.com
>
>I get the following response:
>
>Server: panda
>Address: 192.168.0.4
>
>Name: yahoo.com
>Served by:
>- M.ROOT-SERVERS.NET
> 202.12.27.33
>
>- I.ROOT-SERVERS.NET
> 192.36.148.17
>
>- E.ROOT-SERVERS.NET
> 192.203.230.10
>
>- D.ROOT-SERVERS.NET
> 128.8.10.90
>
>- A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET
> 198.41.0.4
>
>- H.ROOT-SERVERS.NET
> 128.63.2.53
>
>- C.ROOT-SERVERS.NET
> 192.33.4.12
>
>- G.ROOT-SERVERS.NET
> 192.112.36.4
>
>- F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET
> 192.5.5.241
>
>- B.ROOT-SERVERS.NET
> 128.9.0.107
>
>-------------------------------------
>
>while when i write the command
>
>nslookup raheel123.com
>
>i get the right response which is as follows:
>
>Server: panda
>Address: 192.168.0.4
>
>Name: raheel123.com
>Address: 192.168.0.4
>
>
>so i suspect that Bind might be designated as Root Server, or kind of
>something, because when i use
>
>ping yahoo.com
>
>i get the right response from it. telling the ip address of yahoo.
>
>Please help me in this matter.
>
>
>
>
>
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