On Fri, Nov 24, 2006 at 05:49:19PM -0500, steve szmidt wrote:
> OK, having gotten X up, etherape installed, I'm getting a complaint that "No 
> nameservers defined. I've tested the local dns every way but Sunday, and it 
> all seem to work just fine. 
> 
> I got a local LAN under RFC1918. I can do both forward and reverse lookups on 
> local and external addresses. Both named-checkconf and named-checkzone passes 
> fine. 
> 
> Obviously etherape is trying to do some lookup and fails, but I've got no 
> idea 
> where... If I start etherape without name resolution it works, so it seems
> to be a dns problem. :(
> 
> Running on a LAN machine it works fine, the problem is only when run on the 
> dns server.

Are processes on the localhost permitted to use named?

/var/named/etc/named.conf:

acl clients {
        localhost;
        192.168.x.x;
};

options {
        listen-on       { 127.0.0.1; 192.168.x.x; };
};



/etc/resolv.conf
nameserver 127.0.0.1

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