Dial in customers unable to view websites and other problems

Mark.Andrews at nominum.com Mark.Andrews at nominum.com
Thu May 3 23:31:10 UTC 2001


> 
> > 
> > 
> >> 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?
> > 
> No, the system we're running provides dial up acces for 46 unique 
> customers at one time.  One modem per customer and one preset  ip per 
> modem.
> 
> > 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.
> 
> One problem that I found through the log is that it can't find the 
> domains that I attempt to go to externally.  When I type in yahoo.com 
> for instance it attempt to resolve the name to the nameserver but it 
> fails everytime.  I was wondering if this was because the db.cache was 
> configured wrong in the named.conf file or if  the name server was not 
> properly loading.  Any suggestions on either?

	Do you have a firewall between the nameserver and the internet
	as a whole?  If so you may need to adjust it's rules and/or
	use query-source to set the appropriate port.

> 
> >> 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?
> 
> Windows NT 4
> 
> > 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?
> 
> I downloaded the config pack and added my changes to the named.conf to 
> make it work.  I then changed my current zones syntax to reflect  the 
> differences between 4.9.5 and 8.
> 
> Thanks for all of you help,
> James
> 
> 
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Mark Andrews, Nominum Inc.
1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia
PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742                 INTERNET: Mark.Andrews at nominum.com


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