Providing local DNS service behind a cheap router/gateway

[Steven Stromer]

Thanks, Jonathan.

nameserver in resolv.conf had previously been set to 192.168.0.38,  
the lan address of the bind server, due to the fact that my  
named.conf file contained the options:

allow-query { "admirallan"; };
allow-recursion { "admirallan"; };

"admirallan" didn't contain 127.0.0.1, thus preventing 127.0.0.1 from  
being permitted to make queries. However, this arrangement worked  
fine for years.

During my recent changes, I changed these settings to:

allow-query { localnets; localhost; "admirallan"; };
allow-recursion { localnets; localhost; "admirallan"; };

and changed the nameserver in resolv.conf to 127.0.0.1. This allows  
the nameserver in resolv.conf to be set to 127.0.0.1 successsfully.  
However, thinking this may have played a part in breaking things, I  
changed these settings back to what previously worked. Once I figure  
out the problem I've described, I will try to return to these new  
settings.

Hate to ask, but any other ideas? I'm not sure where to be looking to  
find what's wrong. Should I be customizing my named log files to  
better troubleshoot? I hate to introduce new variables, when I think  
that the problem really lies with the install of the caching- 
nameserver package. I'm toying with backing up my configured zones,  
removing all bind related packages, and reinstalling everything, but  
I'd prefer to understand what's going wrong, over taking a route  
around the problem!


> On Wednesday 02 January 2008 08:16:25 pm you wrote:
>
>> [snipped...]
>
> steve, just to make sure youre not troubleshooting the wagon before  
> the
> horse...  whats the nameserver specified on the actual DNS server?   
> if you
> get on its console, can it perform lookups sucessfully?  if no, is it
> possible, that the DHCP/DNS server's resolv.conf specifies:
>
> nameserver	[the-routers-ip-that-is-no-longer-a-dns-server]
>
> ?
>
> it seems like if yes, that would certainly break the forwarding  
> behavior.
>
> good luck,
> -- 
> Jonathan Horne
> http://dfwlpiki.dfwlp.org
> freebsd08 _ at _ dfwlp.com
>