windows server not connecting to BIND 9 server

Barry Margolin barmar at alum.mit.edu
Mon Jun 28 22:38:37 UTC 2004


In article <cbq501$24qn$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
 xippy dapinhead <vze7ekc6 at verizon.net> wrote:

> Hi:
> 
> I've got a local subnet (192.16.1.x) that's NAT'd behind a firewall.
> 
> I've got a BIND 9.2.3 server running on RH9...it's on 192.168.1.200
> 
> I've got a Win2K server on 192.168.1.202
> 
> The NS is accessible to the outside world. I've set up two views, one
> for the 192.x.x.x machines and one for the outside world.
> 
> When I query the NS from another box on the subnet, it correctly
> resolves the local IPs for various domains.
> 
> The Win2K server, however, can't seem to get through to the NS. If I
> set the local NS in the TCP/IP properties and do an nslookup, I get no
> response...the request times out.
> 
> If I switch the NS to some public servers outside my subnet, the Win2K
> server connects fine.
> 
> Any reason why it won't connect when the NS is set to a 192.x.x.x
> address?

Can the two boxes communicate in general?  I.e. can they ping each other 
by IP?

Try checking their ARP caches, maybe one of them has a bogus MAC address 
for the other.

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Barry Margolin, barmar at alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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