External queries fail on BIND 8.3.1

Kevin Darcy kcd at daimlerchrysler.com
Tue Jun 18 22:20:05 UTC 2002


Six Wayz wrote:

> >Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2002 18:25:19 -0400
> >From: Kevin Darcy <kcd at daimlerchrysler.com>
> >Subject: Re: External queries fail on BIND 8.3.1
> >
> >
> >Kevin wrote:
> >So, you're querying from exactly the same IP address that your nameserver
> >would
> >use to send queries, right? And a "dig" works but forwarding doesn't. Very
> >odd.
> >
> >I'd turn on debugging at this point. See if your nameserver is even
> >*trying* to
> >forward the queries.
> >
> >
> >- Kevin
>
> Thanks again for the reply, Kevin.
> I turned on debugging as you suggested.  However, I do not know how to
> interpret the results.  Help is most appreciated.  Here are the results of
> debugging (Level 1):
>
> datagram from [127.0.0.1].1805, fd 22, len 25
> req: nlookup(isc.org) id 4 type=1 class=1
> req: found 'isc.org' as 'org' (cname=0)
> findns: No root nameservers for class IN?
> ns_req: answer -> [127.0.0.1].1805 fd=22 id=4 size=25 rc=2
> prime_cache: priming = 0, root = 0
> sysquery: nlookup error on ?
>
> Obviously, I have queried isc.org.  It seems to me that the problem lies in
> the findns procedure.

That debug output implies that you don't have forwarding enabled. What does
your named.conf look like?


- Kevin





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