Hi,

I have followed countless tutorials about bind and I have never actually gotten it to work the way it should. It has always just worked enough to get me by. Here it is:

I setup BIND on a machine and for that machine, the DNS names are resolved with no problem. I used dig to see where the information was comming from and it cam from the local server. I opend iptables port 53 and did an nmap to scan udp ports and it was open so I am sure that part of it is ok. It seems funny that the local machine can resolve anything it wants, including specified localnet hostnames, but when I try to have another machine on the network use the server as its DNS resolver, it just won't go through. I have been stuck on this for a long time. Please help. Thanks in advance. Here is some output that may help:

durance bind # dig google.com

; <<>> DiG 9.2.5 <<>> google.com
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 14608
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 3, AUTHORITY: 4, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;google.com. IN A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
google.com. 300 IN A 216.239.39.99
google.com. 300 IN A 216.239.57.99
google.com. 300 IN A 216.239.37.99

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
google.com. 345600 IN NS ns1.google.com.
google.com. 345600 IN NS ns2.google.com.
google.com. 345600 IN NS ns3.google.com.
google.com. 345600 IN NS ns4.google.com.

;; Query time: 471 msec
;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1)
;; WHEN: Sun Aug 7 23:15:49 2005
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 148

#1st cache 471 ms

durance bind # iptables -L | grep domain
ACCEPT udp -- 192.168.0.0/24 anywhere udp dpt:domain

Hi!

to me it looks as a firewall problem. have you allowed your Server's firewall to
accept new connections. else none would be able to use your DNS.

regrads

Here is the full tables, thanks for the reply. Is there a better way to accept new connections?

durance home # iptables -L
Chain INPUT (policy DROP)
target prot opt source destination
ACCEPT all -- localhost localhost
ACCEPT all -- anywhere anywhere state NEW,RELATED,ESTABLISHED
ACCEPT icmp -- anywhere anywhere icmp destination-unreachable
ACCEPT icmp -- anywhere anywhere icmp time-exceeded
ACCEPT icmp -- anywhere anywhere icmp echo-request
ACCEPT icmp -- anywhere anywhere icmp echo-reply
ACCEPT tcp -- anywhere anywhere tcp dpt:ssh
ACCEPT udp -- 192.168.0.0/24 anywhere udp dpt:domain
ACCEPT tcp -- 192.168.0.0/24 anywhere tcp dpt:sunrpc
ACCEPT tcp -- 192.168.0.0/24 anywhere tcp dpt:nfs
ACCEPT tcp -- 192.168.0.0/24 anywhere tcp dpt:2219
ACCEPT tcp -- 192.168.0.0/24 anywhere tcp dpt:4045
LOG all -- anywhere anywhere limit: avg 40/min burst 5 LOG level warning
DROP all -- anywhere anywhere

Chain FORWARD (policy DROP)
target prot opt source destination

Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source destination