no servers could be reached

[Stephane Bortzmeyer]

On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 01:52:14AM -0400,
 info at mtdatasure.com <info at mtdatasure.com> wrote 
 a message of 41 lines which said:

> And finally, I have tried these commands with the firewall turned
> off.  It appears as if UDP port 53 simply isn't listening.  I am out
> of ideas.
> 
> Is there a configuration option new to bind 9.3 that I'm not
> thinking of?  Is there a service that I need to have running that's
> not?

Not that I see. You apparently performed quite comprehensive tests. 

I'm fairly certain it is the firewall, so I would check:

* if it is really turned off,

* what the firewall log says.