no servers could be reached

[Ian]

Dear Experts

/dev/rob0 replied to my mess, but yes, it was too messy.  I'll try again.

The object is to have a name server for my home network. Dig -x 127.0.0.1
is successful.  Dig <hostname> is not.  After days of this, that and
tearing my hair out I have no idea why. Please help. Relevant files
follow, including output from named-checkzone.

Regards

Ian Dudley-Bestow.

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Slackware 9.1
Kernel 2.4.22 (home made)
P III.
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dig -x 127.0.0.1

; <<>> DiG 9.2.2-P3 <<>> -x 127.0.0.1
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 19019
;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 1

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;1.0.0.127.in-addr.arpa.                IN      PTR

;; ANSWER SECTION:
1.0.0.127.in-addr.arpa. 86400   IN      PTR     localhost.

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
0.0.127.in-addr.arpa.   86400   IN      NS      localhost.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
localhost.              86400   IN      A       127.0.0.1

;; Query time: 163 msec
;; SERVER: 203.62.159.2#53(203.62.159.2)
;; WHEN: Thu Jun 16 21:48:37 2005
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 93
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dig garage

; <<>> DiG 9.2.2-P3 <<>> garage
;; global options:  printcmd
;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached
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root at house:/var/named/caching-example# cat /etc/named.conf
options {
        directory "/var/named";

        // Uncommenting this might help if you have to go through a
        // firewall and things are not working out.  But you probably
        // need to talk to your firewall admin.

        // query-source port 53;
};

controls {
        inet 127.0.0.1 allow { localhost; } keys { rndc_key; };
};

key "rndc_key" {
        algorithm hmac-md5;
        secret
"c3Ryb25nIGVub3VnaCBmb3IgYSBtYW4gYnV0IG1hZGUgZm9yIGEgd29tYW4K";
};

zone "." IN {
        type hint;
        file "caching-example/named.ca";
};

zone "localhost" IN {
        type master;
        file "caching-example/localhost.zone";
        allow-update { none; };
};

zone "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa" IN {
        type master;
        file "caching-example/named.local";
        allow-update { none; };
};
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root at house:/var/named/caching-example# named-checkzone localhost
localhost.zone
zone localhost/IN: loaded serial 2005061401
OK
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root at house:/var/named/caching-example# named-checkzone localhost named.local
zone localhost/IN: loaded serial 2005061401
OK
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/var/log/messages
Jun 16 21:32:44 house named[99]: starting BIND 9.2.2-P3
Jun 16 21:32:44 house named[99]: using 1 CPU
Jun 16 21:32:44 house named[99]: loading configuration from '/etc
named.conf'
Jun 16 21:32:44 house named[99]: no IPv6 interfaces found
Jun 16 21:32:44 house named[99]: listening on IPv4 interface lo,
127.0.0.1#53
Jun 16 21:32:44 house named[99]: listening on IPv4 interface eth0,
192.168.1.1#53
Jun 16 21:32:45 house named[99]: command channel listening on 127.0.0.1#953
Jun 16 21:32:45 house named[99]: zone 0.0.127.in-addr.arpa/IN: loaded serial
2005061401
Jun 16 21:32:45 house named[99]: zone localhost/IN: loaded serial 2005061401
Jun 16 21:32:45 house named[99]: running
Jun 16 21:32:45 house named[99]: zone localhost/IN: sending notifies (serial
2005061401)
Jun 16 21:32:45 house named[99]: zone 0.0.127.in-addr.arpa/IN: sending
notifies (serial 2005061401)
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root at house:/var/named/caching-example# cat named.local
$TTL 3D
@               IN      SOA     localhost. hostmaster.localhost. (
                        2005061401       ; Serial
                        8H      ; Refresh
                        2H      ; Retry
                        4W      ; Expire
                        1D)     ; Minimum TTL
                        NS      localhost.
1                       PTR     localhost.
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root at house:/var/named/caching-example# cat localhost.zone
$TTL 3D
@       IN      SOA     localhost. hostmaster.localhost. (
                        2005061401       ; serial, todays date + todays
serial #
                        8H              ; refresh, seconds
                        2H              ; retry, seconds
                        4W              ; expire, seconds
                        1D )            ; minimum, seconds
;
                NS      ns              ; Inet Address of name server
localhost       A       127.0.0.1
garage          A       192.168.1.9
shed            A       192.168.1.10
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