DNS is on a mad one
 

Hi gang, it has been along time since I asked for help…

I have been using SuSe 4 two years

On Monday I built an old PC to run Redhat. I have got all the stuff needed to develop my sites working now…things like apache, php, mySQL, ftp, blah, blah

BUT..

DNS is on a mad one, if I sit at the server and type the URL it works fine…
If I use my any other PC on the network it does not resolve the address ??? I have to type the IP of the required V-host


Part of named.conf

#query-source address * port 53
allow-query {
127.0/16;
192.168.0/24;
192.168.0.9; <--- my Windowz IP

Have looked at all the logs, and it all seems OK ??

Pointers would be great, thanks in advance

Shaun

It sounds to me like your DNS might not be running, or at least not running enough to any meaningful good. The file /etc/hosts contains a hand written list of all computers on the local network. It can be used instead of DNS. Since many distros automaticaly add an entry to this file for the local machine, the local machine can resolve itself no matter what state DNS is in.

As for helping you with your DNS issues, I'd have to see your whole named.conf along with the contents of /var/named/

If you take a look at your system logs, maybe you can find a specific error message that can be helped?

-Derek