Bind 9.4.2 not resolving external names but seemingly only on linux

[Chris Buxton]

It sounds like perhaps you haven't defined 'allow-recursion' on the  
Linux server. The default value for this has changed with 9.4.

When you say that resolution of internal addresses works fine, is the  
server authoritative for this data? And are the client machines that  
try to look up data on the same subnet as the server, or are they on a  
separate logical subnet?

The default now is:

allow-recursion { localhost; localnets; };
allow-query { any; };

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On Jan 14, 2008, at 1:46 PM, Jeffrey Collyer wrote:

> So I have 3 nameservers running 9.3.4.  Two on Solaris, one on Linux.
> Everything working fine, but I need the "rrset-order fixed"
> implementation in 9.4.2 (or whenever it was finished).
>
> Grabbed the source for 9.4.2 compiled it everywhere.  Upgraded the
> Solaris boxes, no problem.  All resolution works fine.
>
> I put the new binary in place on the Linux box, and restarted  
> named.  On
> the Linux box only, resolution of addresses outside my domain fail.
> Resolution of internal addresses works fine.
>
> Any ideas why the behavior would change just based on the OS?
>
> The Linux is Ubuntu 6.0.6, so debian with a 2.6.15 kernel.
>
>
> Jeff
>
>