BIND9 does not respond at all

[Sten Carlsen]

Is resolv.conf setup correctly to reflect the nameserver or does it 
point to /etc/hosts?
Kerry Thompson wrote:

>It could be a lot of things. Try running tcpdump ( command : "tcpdump port
>53" ) or similar sniffer like ethereal/tethereal on the server and look at
>the DNS traffic :
>
> - is the request being received ? or are you running a firewall filtering
>it?
>
> - does the server send a response back?
>
> - does the server forward the request to a forwarder?
>
> - the the forwarder reply?
>
>... and so on.
>
>Kerry
>
>
>Brian said:
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>
>>I am having a problem with BIND9 on our internal DNS server.  named is
>>running and I can see it listening on ports using 'netstat -nlp'.  It
>>creates log entries in /var/log/messages, though there are no clues in
>>there either.
>>
>>However, when I try to make a query, it simply does not respond.
>>/etc/resolv.conf is pointed at the correct IPs.  Even when I use rndc,
>>it does not respond to commands like 'rndc stats' or anything else.  To
>>shut it down I must use 'kill -9'.
>>
>>Currently it's only configured as a caching server, though I have also
>>tried to set up a zone.  Even the queries for the zone do not get a
>>response.
>>
>>Does anyone have any ideas I can try to track this down?  Running bind
>>9.2.3, on Redhat linux 9 w/ kernel 2.4.20-smp.  Here is my configure line:
>>../configure --prefix=/usr --with-libtool --with-openssl --enable-threads
>>--sysconfdir=/etc/bind --localstatedir=/var
>>
>>Thank you!
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>>
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