After further investigation I discovered the problem is the forwarder is
not responding. The DNS server has a private IP address and the forwarder
is a public ip address. There is a firewall between the two servers.
What is required to get replys back from the forwarder?
david
On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, David Brett wrote:
> Hi Michael
>
> If I stop named. All network connections work properly (including ping
> internet addresses)
> When I start named I can no longer ping any ip address not in dns. I
> cannot do a lookup of any ip address not in the local domain
> All local domain entries are pingable and can be looked up
>
>
> david
>
> On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, Michael Burger wrote:
>
> > True...but if "nameserver 127.0.0.1" isn't included in that
> > resolv.conf file, lookups won't work. Also, even if it is included,
> > if the connection to the net isn't there, it won't work, either.
> >
> > In other words, as long as you have a working DNS setup on 127.0.0.1,
> > and a connection to the net, it should work.
> >
> > On Fri, 15 Dec 2000 19:25:40 +0100, Leonard den Ottolander wrote:
> >
> > > Hi Michael,
> > >
> > >> What do you have as the contents of your /etc/resolv.conf file?
> > >>
> > >> You need to have at least one valid DNS server listed in that file in
> > >> order for outside lookups to work. Two or three is even better.
> > >
> > > The machine that is the DNS only needs a reference to itself in resolv.conf,
> > >ie "nameserver 127.0.0.1". You are not referencing other machines.
> > >
> > > Bye,
> > >
> > > Leonard.
> > >
> > >
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