A question about bind?
Joseph Watson
jtwatson at datakota.com
Thu Nov 29 20:47:24 UTC 2001
Eivind Olsen wrote:
> --On 27. november 2001 22:51 -0500 Joseph Watson <jtwatson at datakota.com>
> wrote:
>
>> But still I have a problem that I can not query the dns server
>> directly???
>>
>> This is what I get:
>>
>> [jtwatson at Smokey jtwatson]$ host -a www.datakota.com 216.16.67.246
>> Trying "www.datakota.com"
>> ;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached
>> [jtwatson at Smokey jtwatson]$
>>
>> Am I using the host util wrong???? Does anyone have any idea what is
>> wrong here?
>
>
> Did you do the host-query from the server itself or from another
> server/workstation? The same host-query works when I test it here.
> Is 216.16.67.246 a real local IP-address of the nameserver, or does that
> IP-address in reality belong to some router/firewall that is doing
> NAT/port-forwarding? If the IP-address in reality belongs to the
> external/WAN interface of a router, you might have problems accessing it
> on the external IP-address from the inside.
>
> Did this make any sense?
>
>> I can make a dns change, and because I have the cache time settings set
>> real low, I see the changes in a few minutes! Because the changes come
>> through, I know that the dns server is working when queried by another
>> dns server, but I can not query my dns server directly????
>
>
> Yes, that was another thing I was going to comment on. Having a TTL of
> 60 seconds and a refresh of 120 seconds seems a bit excessive. ;)
>
I am running the test from a seperate host that is connected to the
interent with a dialup. I can query othier dns servers directly and they
will respond??? But I can not query ns3.datakota.com directly??? Can
anyone else directly query ns3.datakota.com??
Thanks
Joseph
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