Problem with quering BIND on localhost

Barry Margolin barmar at alum.mit.edu
Tue Oct 30 01:24:02 UTC 2007


In article <fg4evm$4l2$1 at sf1.isc.org>, <cindyjohnson1 at verizon.net> 
wrote:

> Johnny,
> If your localhost isn't included as 127.0.0.1 in the acl then this is the 
> correct response.  Without seeing your named.conf and domain files, this is a 
> best guess of the problem to be fixed.

Wouldn't the correct response in that case be REFUSED, not SERVFAIL?

> Cindy
> 
> 
> >From: =?ISO646-US?Q?Johan_Schr=3Fder?= <mail at johnny.eu>
> >Date: 2007/10/29 Mon AM 04:34:07 CDT
> >To: bind-users at isc.org
> >Subject: Problem with quering BIND on localhost
> >
> >Hello,
> >
> >I have a -probably simple- question. I'm runnung BIND 9 on a Ubuntu 
> >server and I've already set up different zone files. When I try to query 
> >BIND on the local machine, I get this error:
> 
> > > nslookup www.domain.com localhost
> >Server:         localhost
> >Address:        127.0.0.1#53
> >
> >** server can't find www.domain.com: SERVFAIL
> >
> >I do not understand why I get this error, because BIND is already 
> >running and also a ACL is set up.
> >
> >Regards, Johnny

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