A question about bind?

[Joseph Watson]

Eivind Olsen wrote:

> --On 27. november 2001 22:51 -0500 Joseph Watson <jtwatson at datakota.com> 
> wrote:
> 
>> But still  I have a problem that I can not query the dns server
>> directly???
>>
>> This is what I get:
>>
>> [jtwatson at Smokey jtwatson]$ host -a www.datakota.com 216.16.67.246
>> Trying "www.datakota.com"
>> ;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached
>> [jtwatson at Smokey jtwatson]$
>>
>> Am I using the host util wrong????  Does anyone have any idea what is
>> wrong  here?
> 
> 
> Did you do the host-query from the server itself or from another 
> server/workstation? The same host-query works when I test it here.
> Is 216.16.67.246 a real local IP-address of the nameserver, or does that 
> IP-address in reality belong to some router/firewall that is doing 
> NAT/port-forwarding? If the IP-address in reality belongs to the 
> external/WAN interface of a router, you might have problems accessing it 
> on the external IP-address from the inside.
> 
> Did this make any sense?
> 
>> I can make a dns change, and because I have the cache time settings set
>> real low,  I see the changes in a few minutes!  Because the changes come
>> through, I know that the dns server is working when queried by another
>> dns  server, but I can not query my dns server directly????
> 
> 
> Yes, that was another thing I was going to comment on. Having a TTL of 
> 60 seconds and a refresh of 120 seconds seems a bit excessive. ;)
> 

I am running the test from a seperate host that is connected to the 
interent with a dialup.  I can query othier dns servers directly and they 
will respond???  But I can not query ns3.datakota.com directly???  Can 
anyone else directly query ns3.datakota.com??

Thanks

Joseph