Dial in customers unable to view websites and other problems
James
jsimons at edistonet.com
Thu May 3 19:06:29 UTC 2001
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>> I just finished a new attempt at installing bind 8 and after running
>> into some problems I had to re-enable bind 4.9.5 so my customers could
>> have access to the Internet.
>>
>> What happened after I installed it is this, customers were able to log
>> in, but they could not receive web sites. I thought this might have
>> been related to the fact that the domain that they authenticate to not
>> being properly set up after the install. So, I made the named.conf file
>> and added the zones to it as is necessary and made a few changes to the
>> zone files including the $ttl option. I then rebooted the server and
>> kept having the same problem. Then on a whim I decided to change the
>> tcp\ip settings for the dial up customers and specified the DNS servers
>> under Windows. That fixed the problem outright, the only problem with
>> this is that I can't change some 500 people tcp\ip settings!
>
>> Aren't you using DHCP?
>
No, the system we're running provides dial up acces for 46 unique
customers at one time. One modem per customer and one preset ip per
modem.
> What do your logs say? BIND 4 was very permissive; BIND 8 is less so. So
> maybe you have something illegal in your zonefiles that BIND 8 is choking
> on. The logs should reveal any problems.
One problem that I found through the log is that it can't find the
domains that I attempt to go to externally. When I type in yahoo.com
for instance it attempt to resolve the name to the nameserver but it
fails everytime. I was wondering if this was because the db.cache was
configured wrong in the named.conf file or if the name server was not
properly loading. Any suggestions on either?
>> Second problem I'm having is that after I make the switch to v8 and
>> change over the zone files my domains quit working. I even redid the db
>> files on a few of them based on the the example but that had no effect.
>>
>> Last question, can someone give me a hand with the script that is
>> supposed to change over the zone and named.boot files for me? I can't
>> find anything that will run it.
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> You don't have Perl *or* something Bourne-shell compatible? What kind of
> platform is this? VMS?
Windows NT 4
> Just out of curiosity, if you haven't been able to convert your named.boot
> into a named.conf, what are you using for a named.conf? And if you haven't
> even created a named.conf, why would you expect your BIND 8 nameserver to
> run at all?
I downloaded the config pack and added my changes to the named.conf to
make it work. I then changed my current zones syntax to reflect the
differences between 4.9.5 and 8.
Thanks for all of you help,
James
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