Dial in customers unable to view websites and other problems

Kevin Darcy kcd at daimlerchrysler.com
Wed May 2 20:16:33 UTC 2001


James wrote:

> I just finished a new attempt at installing bind 8 and after running
> into some problems I had to re-enable bind 4.9.5 so my customers could
> have access to the Internet.
>
> What happened after I installed it is this, customers were able to log
> in, but they could not receive web sites.  I thought this might have
> been related to the fact that the domain that they authenticate to not
> being properly set up after the install.  So, I made the named.conf file
> and added the zones to it as is necessary and made a few changes to the
> zone files including the $ttl option.  I then rebooted the server and
> kept having the same problem.  Then on a whim I decided to change the
> tcp\ip settings for the dial up customers and specified the DNS servers
> under Windows.  That fixed the problem outright, the only problem with
> this is that I can't change some 500 people tcp\ip settings!

Aren't you using DHCP?

> Does
> anyone have any idea what might be causing this problem?

What do your logs say? BIND 4 was very permissive; BIND 8 is less so. So
maybe you have something illegal in your zonefiles that BIND 8 is choking
on. The logs should reveal any problems.

> Second problem I'm having is that after I make the switch to v8 and
> change over the zone files my domains quit working.  I even redid the db
> files on a few of them based on the the example but that had no effect.
>
> Last question, can someone give me a hand with the script that is
> supposed to change over the zone and named.boot files for me?  I can't
> find anything that will run it.

You don't have Perl *or* something Bourne-shell compatible? What kind of
platform is this? VMS?

Just out of curiosity, if you haven't been able to convert your named.boot
into a named.conf, what are you using for a named.conf? And if you haven't
even created a named.conf, why would you expect your BIND 8 nameserver to
run at all?


- Kevin



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