Hey, I'm a linux semi-noob and am going cold turkey and learning to configure a server without the use of a GUI. I've start off trying to configure BIND and have come across a problem.
I've got the named deamon running, and I can ping and run dig commands on domain names from my linux box, and they return results, but when I set my windows box to use my linux server as its rimary DNS server the windows box won't resolve any domain names!
My config files are below:
/etc/resolv.conf
# nameserver 127.0.0.1
nameserver 59.167.250.99
# search localdomain
/var/named/chroot/etc/named.conf
//
// named.conf for Red Hat caching-nameserver
//
options {
directory "/var/named";
dump-file "/var/named/data/cache_dump.db";
statistics-file "/var/named/data/named_stats.txt";
/*
* If there is a firewall between you and nameservers you want
* to talk to, you might need to uncomment the query-source
* directive below. Previous versions of BIND always asked
* questions using port 53, but BIND 8.1 uses an unprivileged
* port by default.
*/
// query-source address * port 53;
};
//
// a caching only nameserver config
//
controls {
inet 127.0.0.1 allow { localhost; } keys { rndckey; };
};
zone "." IN {
type hint;
file "named.ca";
};
zone "localdomain" IN {
type master;
file "localdomain.zone";
allow-update { none; };
};
zone "localhost" IN {
type master;
file "localhost.zone";
allow-update { none; };
};
zone "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa" IN {
type master;
file "named.local";
allow-update { none; };
};
zone "0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.ip6.arpa" IN {
type master;
file "named.ip6.local";
allow-update { none; };
};
zone "255.in-addr.arpa" IN {
type master;
file "named.broadcast";
allow-update { none; };
};
zone "0.in-addr.arpa" IN {
type master;
file "named.zero";
allow-update { none; };
};
include "/etc/rndc.key";
As I said, I'm a n00b so any help with this will be really appreciated. All I wan't to do is use it as a chaching server (for now, I'll use it to do zones and stuff later). I've been using this tutorial: http://www.brennan.id.au/ - but I get really lost 
Thanks heaps!
