Some help with BIND9 settings!

[Richard Thompson]

I'm struggling with bind as well, but for what it's worth - check the IP
in your allow transfer statement against the  IPs everywhere else.

- Richard

On Fri, 2003-01-31 at 00:48, Tasha Smith wrote:
> Hiii,
> 
> Im trying to get my Bind Server to work. I followed the tutorial by
> Doug Hunley from here :  http://www.linux-sxs.org/bind9.html   . Im a
> newbie soo sorry if my questions seem kind of off :)   Here is what i
> im trying to set it up on (Redhat 7.3-2.3.20, BIND-9.2.2rc1)
> 
> I followed each step exactly and things went smoothly.  The only thing
> i changed was in the "/etc/named.conf" file
> 
> 1> // whom do we allow to do zone tranfers
>             allow-transfer { 192.168.1.0/24; }; # to my internal
> interface ip addy(eth1) 
>              # 192.168.0.1
> 
> 2> // tell Bind to check the names in zone files
>    // since it no longer does this by default
>             // (currently unimplemented)
>             //check-names master warn; //<---commented this line out
> 
> 3>// specify what interfaces/ips to listen on
>             // as the default is all of them
>             listen-on { 192.168.1.10; 127.0.0.1; }; //<----changed to
> my LAN interface 192.168.0.1
> 
> 4> And i changed the KEYS to the keys in the files  /etc/rndc.key and
> /etc/rndc.conf to the keys that i have.
> 
> And then i went to my windows machines and changed thier DNS addresses
> to 192.168.0.1 <-----eth1 
> 
> Here is my setup soo you have a better idea!
> I have 1 LINUX machine acting as my "Firewall/ROUTER and DNS server"
> and 2 windows machines behind it. I was using my ISP's DNS server for
> the windows machines but now i want the linux machine totake care of
> it.
> 
> If anyone can help me from here on some steps to make sure everything
> is working. Casue when i run NSLOOUP from my windows machine i get 
> DNS request timed out.
>     timeout was 2 seconds.
> *** Can't find server name for address 192.168.0.1: Timed out
> *** Default servers are not available
> Default Server:  UnKnown
> Address:  192.168.0.1
> And that is even after i trun my firewall off on my LINUX machine.
>   
> Thanks guys :)
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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Richard Thompson <mergannt at nushtel.com>