On 2002.12.03 18:06 Gary Hennigan wrote:
"Paul Lewis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:So far so good.How do your internal machines resolve external addresses? Does each of them have a resolve.conf that points to your ISP nameservers, as well as your internal nameserver, or do you have your internal name server query your ISPs nameservers? You really want the latter to have everything work the "Right Way (TM)".I'm assuming you don't have your local bind configured to query your ISP name server? That's probably what you need to do to fix things up completely and then put into /etc/resolv.conf on your box running named: domain whatever.you.call.your.home.domain search whatever.you.call.your.home.domain nameserver 127.0.0.1 nameserver <ISP nameserver #1 IP> nameserver <ISP nameserver #2 IP>
On 2002.12.03 18:06 Gary Hennigan wrote:
Thanks to all three of you (Stephen, Alan and Gary), this reply seemed the easiest to try and it looks like it worked. After some addional spice thrown in by my dsl modem. Leastwise everything seems to be functioning normally now. My resolve file looks similar to this now except I did not include the domain. The docs, such as I have read them suggested they are incompatible together."Paul Lewis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:So far so good.How do your internal machines resolve external addresses? Does each of them have a resolve.conf that points to your ISP nameservers, as well as your internal nameserver, or do you have your internal name server query your ISPs nameservers? You really want the latter to have everything work the "Right Way (TM)". I'm assuming you don't have your local bind configured to query your ISP name server? That's probably what you need to do to fix things up completely and then put into /etc/resolv.conf on your box running named: domain whatever.you.call.your.home.domain search whatever.you.call.your.home.domain nameserver 127.0.0.1 nameserver <ISP nameserver #1 IP> nameserver <ISP nameserver #2 IP> The 127.0.0.1 will cause your server to query itself first, then, if necessary go to your ISP nameservers.
According to the HOW-TO is am working from the correct format for my named.conf isYou'll have to look at the bind docs to see how to set up your bind server to forward requests for external IPs to your ISPs nameservers. In Bind 4 (my server ran OpenBSD), after you defined your local zones in named.boot you put: forwarders 10.x.x.x 10.x.x.x options forward-only replacing the two 10.x.x.x addresses with your ISPs nameserver IP addresses
forwarders first;
forwarders {
<numeric ip ns1>;
<numeric ip ns2>;
};
> > I am pretty sure it is related to my tinkerings but just can't see > where the problem lies. Any suggestions? Fix the first prob, then the second may disappear. If not you can ask again after the first problem is resolved!
Absolutely, spot on.
Thanks to all three of you (Stephen, Alan and Gary), this reply seemed the easiest to try and it looks like it worked. After some addional spice thrown in by my dsl modem. Leastwise everything seems to be functioning normally now. My resolve file looks similar to this now except I did not include the domain. The docs, such as I have read them suggested they are incompatible together.Gary The 127.0.0.1 will cause your server to query itself first, then, if necessary go to your ISP nameservers.
According to the HOW-TO is am working from the correct format for my named.conf isYou'll have to look at the bind docs to see how to set up your bind server to forward requests for external IPs to your ISPs nameservers. In Bind 4 (my server ran OpenBSD), after you defined your local zones in named.boot you put: forwarders 10.x.x.x 10.x.x.x options forward-only replacing the two 10.x.x.x addresses with your ISPs nameserver IP addresses
forwarders first;
forwarders {
<numeric ip ns1>;
<numeric ip ns2>;
};
> > I am pretty sure it is related to my tinkerings but just can't see > where the problem lies. Any suggestions? Fix the first prob, then the second may disappear. If not you can ask again after the first problem is resolved!
Absolutely, spot on.
Gary
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