no servers could be reached

[Ian]

Gregory, thank you, but no luck.  I added the line to localhost.zone, but
dig still doesn't work.

Regards
Ian Dudley-Bestow
(rapidly becomming a Bind skeptic)

*******start*******
Ian at house:/etc$ dig garage

; <<>> DiG 9.2.2-P3 <<>> garage
;; global options:  printcmd
;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached
*******end*******

*******start*******
Ian at house:/etc$ cat /var/named/caching-example/localhost.zone
;
; Zone file for linux.bogus
;
; The full zone file
;
$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      127.0.0.1              ; Inet Address of name server
ns      IN      A       127.0.0.1
localhost       A       127.0.0.1
garage          A       192.168.1.9
shed            A       192.168.1.10
*******end******* 
>> *******start*******
>> 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
> 
> You need to have an A record for the machine "ns"
> 
> ns                IN  A 127.0.0.1
> 
>> localhost       A       127.0.0.1
>> garage          A       192.168.1.9
>> shed            A       192.168.1.10
>> *******end*******
>> 
>> 
> 
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