I have been dealing with this particular issue for awhile now and just cannot seem to get BIND 9.1 working properly. I have gone through all the files named.conf and the zone files. The named comes up with only one error message "Nov 30 04:12:30 localhost named[21319]: no IPv6 interfaces found" . I can use dig, etc. locally on the box without a problem, the DNS server is registered. So the problem is when I try a DNS traversal, the server returns a connection refused. No firewall software is up currently, I check netstat and it appears to be listening on 53.

I am a newbie to the Linux World, but an old dog in Solaris.

If anyone could provide any thoughts? Much apreciated

Are you actually using an IPV6 interface? Most would be using a V4 type interface. I do not know much about the IPV6 implementations but I know they are quite different. Try looking in the man pages about Bind and IPV6 and V4 and see what is there that might help you.