diff. between 9.3.2 and 9.2.6

[Barry Finkel]

s11976 at net2.hkbu.edu.hk (pui ming Wong) wrote:
>We've been using 9.2.6 (compiled ourselves for aix 4.3.3)
>with no problems.
>Recently, decided to try the 9.2.3 
>Compiled it on the same machine without any problems.
>But after starting the daemon, doing the testing with
>nslookup failed to query our own zone (domain ),
>
>for example doing the command
>nslookup
>www.our.own.domain.
>
>gives errors
>localhost can't find www.our.own.domain.:Server failed
>
>(Doing the cache query , i.e. for named.ca worked okay ) 
>
>I sticked with the same directories (i.e. those working with
>9.2.6)  where the zone files have been
>( to avoid silly mistakes like typos.)
>
>So , what new things have been included in 9.3.2 ?
>(I checked with the same preinstalled version of 9.3.2
>on another guy's linux machine ,which indicated a lot 
>of symbolic links like,
> /var/named/chroot/var/named/own.hosts.file must be linked
>for /var/named/own.hosts.file
> ... etc
>in order for the thing to work?
>
>Is that so? 
>What else must i changed for this 9.3.2 to work for the query
>of various zones 

I have seen a number of replies, but none that had these two points:

1) When you started 9.3.2, what messages were written to syslog?
   If there were any problems, message(s) should have been written.

2) You have fallen into a trap:

        >for example doing the command
        >nslookup
        >www.our.own.domain.
        >
        >gives errors
        >localhost can't find www.our.own.domain.:Server failed

    nslookup is NOT a debugging tool (unless, maybe, you use the -debug
    flag).   Use "dig", as it formats the DNS response packet and tells
    you exactly what is in each section therein.
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