Dana Holland said: > I'm at a complete loss here - why would I be getting this error message?
check the DNS logs on the box, tune the log configuration on BIND if you need to, my log configuration for BIND 8 is below(seems similar to what BIND 9 uses): logging { channel chroot_default { file "log/named.log" versions 3 size 10m; print-time yes; print-category yes; severity info; }; channel chroot_debug { file "log/debug.log" versions 3 size 10m; print-time yes; print-category yes; severity dynamic; }; channel syslog_server { syslog daemon; print-category yes; severity info; }; category default { syslog_server; }; category panic { syslog_server; }; category packet { chroot_debug; }; category lame-servers { null; }; category queries { null; }; category statistics { chroot_default; }; category config { syslog_server; }; category parser { syslog_server; }; category ncache { syslog_server; }; category xfer-in { syslog_server; }; category xfer-out { syslog_server; }; category db { syslog_server; }; category eventlib { chroot_default; }; category notify { syslog_server; }; category cname { syslog_server; }; category security { syslog_server; }; category os { syslog_server; }; category insist { syslog_server; }; category maintenance { syslog_server; }; category load { syslog_server; }; category response-checks { syslog_server; }; }; you'll probably want to log queries as well during the testing, so I would change the null; in queries to syslog_server; . Note I start my BIND with /usr/sbin/named -u named -g named -t /etc/bind so the paths in the log files above are relative to /etc/bind, if you don't chroot() your BIND you'll want to set absolute paths. also be sure the zone that you are querinig exists on that nameserver and/or that you allow recursive queries. also check to be sure no firewall is preventing communication, something like nmap should work: nmap -sU -p 53 IP_ADDRESS nate -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list