BIND question

[David A. Bandel]

On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 13:11, Stuart Biggerstaff <biggers at lindahall.org> wrote:
> Here's something proving frustrating.  We just added two records to DNS,
> and I find that if I query the name server from inside our LAN, it
> resolves the addresses.  But if I query our name server from an outside
> host, I get "can't find XXX: Non-existent domain".  This is a BIND
> version 9.3.4 server.

Wow, the amount of info you've provided is underwhelming.

Pls try from inside and outside:

dig @your-bind-server <rr.domain.tld>
substitute an old hostname for rr.domain.tld
then try with one of the new names
if you get an error, try dig with +trace
post to the list (or provide a link to the file if very long).


>
> I can't understand why I seem to be getting different information
> accessing the server directly compared to running through a NAT, because
> clearly DNS is working to the outside.
>
> Anyone seen something like this, or have an idea why it would (or even
> could) be so?

Yep.  By default, BIND won't respond to hosts on a network it's not
on.  This is easily fixed, but since you told us so much about your
setup, it's hard to guess what you have.  You may need an allow query
and recursive yes lines in named.conf (or named.conf.options if you're
using a Debian derivative).

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> Stuart Biggerstaff
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Ciao,

David A. Bandel
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