TXT record problem (Timed out)

Mark Andrews Mark_Andrews at isc.org
Thu Aug 24 14:36:08 UTC 2006


> Hi,
>   my dns server is behind a firewall, and TCP and UDP port 53 have been opene
> d. Is there another port should be opened?
>   After running dig version.bind chaos txt or named -v, I got BIND 9.1.3.
>   Thanks and regards,

	No one should be running BIND 9.1.3 anymore.  Upgrade.
    
>   ----- Original Message -----   From: "Chris Thompson" <cet1 at hermes.cam.ac.u
> k>
>   To: "Bind Users Mailing List" <bind-users at isc.org>
>   Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2006 5:13 PM
>   Subject: Re: TXT record problem (Timed out)
>   
> 
>   > On Aug 24 2006, yasinti wrote:
> > 
> >>  my real domain is gs.astra.co.id.
> > 
> > Well, it's certainly true that _any_ attempt to look up TXT records 
> > at ns1.gs.astra.co.id [202.152.233.131] -- your sole nameserver for
> > that zone -- times out, while other requests, such as the ANY ones, are
> > (sluggishly) responded to.
> > 
> > That's so unlike anything anything that BIND would do that I suspect 
> > you have some sort of misbegotten firewall in the way that is stomping
> > on the TXT requests or the responses to them.
> > 
> > In your original posting you wrote
> > 
> >> I use BIND 9 for my dns server.
> > 
> > As (surprise!) lookups for TXT CHAOS VERSION.BIND also timeout, maybe you
> > could also let us know what version you are using.
> > 
> > -- 
> > Chris Thompson
> > Email: cet1 at cam.ac.uk
> > 
> 
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