Slave server unable to lookup external addresses

[Barry Margolin]

In article <000301bfb146$b8570140$d30b170a at johnb>,
John F. Blyberg <jblyberg at lotusengineeringinc.com> wrote:
>I just set up a slave server internally on our network, it copied down the
>files from the primary fine, and I can look up internal addresses perfectly,
>but anything outside of our lan does not work.  When I do an NSLOOKUP using
>the slave server on an external ip or address, it returns:
>
>(Normal lookup)
>Server:  fishnchips.lotusengineeringinc.com
>Address:  10.23.11.21
>
>*** Request to fishnchips.lotusengineeringinc.com timed-out
>
>(Reverse lookup)
>Server:  fishnchips.lotusengineeringinc.com
>Address:  10.23.11.21
>
>*** fishnchips.lotusengineeringinc.com can't find w.x.y.z: No response from
>server
>
>I'm wondering if I have an issue with authority?  Here are my config files,
>as you can see, we have 3 subnets, 10.23.11.0, 10.23.21.0, 10.23.31.0.  Both
>DNS servers reside in 10.23.11.0.

Why have you posted both named.boot and named.conf files?  Either you're
running BIND 4 and using named.boot, or BIND 8 and using named.conf?  Which
one are you actually using?

>
>[/etc/named.boot]
>directory /var/named
>forwarders      10.23.11.21 10.23.11.21
>cache           .                               db.cache
>primary         0.0.127.in-addr.arpa            db.127.0.0
>secondary       lotusengineeringinc.com
>slave.lotusengineeringinc.com
>secondary       11.23.10.in-addr.arpa           slave.10.23.11
>secondary       21.23.10.in-addr.arpa           slave.10.23.21
>secondary       31.23.10.in-addr.arpa           slave.10.23.31
>secondary       marco.com                       slave.marco.com
>slave

Your "secondary" lines are not correct -- they don't have the IP address of
the primary server to transfer from!

>[/etc/named.conf]
>options {
>        directory "/var/named";
>        query-source address * port 53;
>};

If this is supposed to be a forwarding server like in the named.boot file,
you need to add "forwarders { 10.23.11.21; }; forward only;" options to the
configuration.

>[/etc/resolv.conf]

resolv.conf has absolutely no effect on named, it gets all its
configuration from from named.{boot or conf}.

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Barry Margolin, barmar at genuity.net
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