Bind-8 No Default Server

[Michael Kjorling]

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Tell me... have you looked at your logs? It very clearly states:

named[2803]: sysquery: sendto([198.32.64.12].53): Network is unreachable

If you are using 192.168.1/24 on your local network, and have no
external connectivity, this is exactly what one would expect. You have
to set up the server so it can work independently of the Internet -
possibly by setting up your own root zone.

I have never been in this situation as I stick to defining a new TLD
(like .lan.) if that is needed. Then it won't break things if/when the
server gets connected, either.


Michael Kjörling


On Wed, 2 May 2001, Hubert Schmid wrote:

> Have installed bind on a linux server. Only Intranet, range =
> 192.168.1.xxx, server is 192.168.1.20. If i use nslookup, i cannot find =
> the dns-server, but nslookup localhost 127.0.0.1 works, something is =
> missing, but what ? No external network is accessible, only intranet.
>
> linux:/var/named # nslookup
> *** Can't find server name for address 192.168.1.20: Server failed
> *** Default servers are not available
>
>
> Starting sequence in /var/log/messages
> May  2 10:12:28 linux named[2802]: starting (/etc/named.conf).  named =
> 8.2.3-T9B
> Fri Jan 19 09:43:33 GMT 2001 =
> ^Iroot at kneser:/usr/src/packages/BUILD/bind8-8.2.3/bin/named
> May  2 10:12:28 linux named[2802]: master zone "schmid.de" (IN) loaded =
> (serial 20010429)
> May  2 10:12:28 linux named[2802]: master zone "1.168.192.in-addr-arpa" =
> (IN) loaded (serial 20010502)
> May  2 10:12:28 linux named[2802]: master zone "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa" =
> (IN) loaded (serial 42)
> May  2 10:12:28 linux named[2802]: master zone "localhost" (IN) loaded =
> (serial 42)
> May  2 10:12:28 linux named[2802]: hint zone "" (IN) loaded (serial 0)
> May  2 10:12:28 linux named[2802]: listening on [127.0.0.1].53 (lo)
> May  2 10:12:28 linux named[2802]: listening on [192.168.1.20].53 (eth0)
> May  2 10:12:28 linux named[2802]: Forwarding source address is =
> [0.0.0.0].1038
> May  2 10:12:28 linux named[2803]: group =3D named
> May  2 10:12:28 linux named[2803]: user =3D named
> May  2 10:12:28 linux named[2803]: Ready to answer queries.
> May  2 10:12:28 linux named[2803]: sysquery: sendto([198.32.64.12].53): =
> Network is unreachable
>
>
> Hubert Schmid

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