More than Caching DNS server

Ladislav Vobr lvobr at ies.etisalat.ae
Sat Sep 20 08:56:17 UTC 2003


what is the dig command you have issued ?
do you allow DNS ports through your network ?
do you allow recursion for external clients ?
did you check the queries log file?

Ladislav

Rudi Starcevic wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've got a single install of BIND running sweetly after reading this tutorial:
> 
> http://linux-sxs.org/internet_serving/bind9.html
> 
> It's working as a Caching DNS server.
> But now I'd like to use my DNS server from other machine's not just
> the machine which is running the dns server.
> 
> When I try a Dig from a remote box I get a refused connection.
> For example the DNS server is at 64.235.238.29 and I'm wanting to
> do a dig from 203.220.112.84 ( that's USA and Australia ).
> 
> Is there something simple I need to add to my named.conf file
> to enable this feature ?
> 
> My named.conf file is almost identical to the one in the above mentioned
> tutorial.
> 
> Once I have this up OK I'd like to move into setting up a slave dns server.
> I really like this software.
> 
> Many thanks in advance.
> Best regards
> Rudi.
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