Hi PLUG Someone at the clinic had a question about configuring a private nameserver that was not responding to requests. The basic troubleshooting step, if you have access to the dig utility, is to use the dig utility as shown below.
dig @8.8.8.8 google.com replace IP address with the IP address of your private nameserver replace google.com with a host that you have configured in named.conf If you still don't get the answer you expected, there could be a problem with the named.conf One way that I did not consider at the time was to use another working nameserver to get a conf file to compare to. If you have access to a web hosting service that uses the Plesk control panel for example, configure the private namserver using their interface, then copy the resulting conf file after you've made the changes. Make a comparison between the Plesk-generated conf file and the one that you are troubleshooting using diff or manually. Caveats that I can think of.... Plesk might not be using the same nameserver that you are using, i.e. BIND etc. Plesk only works with routeable IP's if I understand correctly Sincerely Neil _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
