Bind working from localhost but not from LAN :'(

[Kevin Darcy]

Romain wrote:

>Hi all!
>
>I got a working BIND server on a Debian (Woody) machine (192.168.0.1),
>which properly resolve requests. ex:
>
>;; Got answer:
>;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 63435
>;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
>
>;; QUESTION SECTION:
>;version.bind.                  CH      TXT
>
>;; ANSWER SECTION:
>VERSION.BIND.           0       CH      TXT     "8.3.3-REL-NOESW"
>
>;;;; Query
>time: 2 msec
>;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1)
>;; WHEN: Thu Oct  9 13:06:04 2003
>;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 70
>
>However, it does not respond to DNS requests from my other LAN machines!
>
>I configured my DEBIAN machine's IP address as DNS server for the other,
>but LAN machines says 'impossible to find a name server on 192.168.0.1 :
>non-existant domain'
>
Stop using nslookup and use dig instead.

Or, if you insist on using nslookup, set up the reverse for 192.168.0.1, 
upon which nslookup is dependent in this situation.

- Kevin