Hi

I am setting up a public DNS server for my registered domain. I have the following problem.

I have a LAN, I use one the hosts (redhat linux box) to setup the DNS server. When I do the DNS query on this machine using the private IP or localhost, everything is fine.

for example:
I can do
> nslookup
>server 192.168.0.103 (private IP of the host)
> mydomain.com

the output is correct


However, if I do it on another machine(windows XP) in the LAN, and I do the exactly the same thing as above. I wanted to qurey the server for the IP of my domain.

I got no answer, saying the "no response from the server".


Another problem is, on both machines, if I use the public IP, then neither of them work.




Can anybody help me? Thanks in advance!

If you set your DNS server on your XP box to the Linux box, can you resolve other Internet domains?

Do you have iptables running? I believe that the default configuration for RedHat installation is to block all ports. Check the command "iptables -L" to see if it is blocking anything. If it is, you need to change the iptables startup script to allow udp and tcp port 53.

For the problem using the public IP, I'm presuming that you are using port forwarding on your router? If so, then I think that is a problem with most routers. I have the same problem, where it will not forward from the private subnet, to a NAT'ed host on the same subnet.

Hmmm... I didn't quite understand... Can you resolve other host names from your DNS machine?
for instance if you do:
> dig www.cnn.com
(use dig instead of nslookup )

What will be the outcome?
If you cant get to the outer world through the DNS server then none of the other machines in your LAN will.
Check the gateway of the DNS server.
And as shubb said, check the firewall policy and enable incoming queries on port 53 from your LAN if it is not already enabled.

Other than that, in the LAN clients in the specify to not to use the proxy (if one) for your domain, or for your network's addresses.