can reverse lookup but not name lookup

[Mark_Andrews at isc.org]

> Hi,
> 
> Installed bind 9.1.0 on linux 7.1.

	I would upgrade to 9.1.3.

> This is a private network, with no connection to the internet.

	You don't have a root zone below.  Depending upon the client and
	resolv.conf settings you may be trying to look up names against
	the root zone which will use the built in hints.

	Assuming this is the only nameserver in this universe the following
	should do.

; root.zone
;
$TTL 86400
@       	      	SOA     bumper.localdomain. root.bumper.localdomain. (
				1        	; Serial
				10800          	; Refresh
				3600            ; Retry
				604800          ; Expire
				86400 )         ; Minimum
          	     	NS      bumper.localdomain.
bumper.localdomain	A	192.168.1.10
localdomain		NS	bumper.localdomain.
1.168.192.IN-ADDR.ARPA	NS	bumper.localdomain.
0.0.127.IN-ADDR.ARPA	NS	bumper.localdomain.

	Mark

> 
> I can reverse lookup all my entries in the revzone, but I cannot do a normal
> name resolve on any of the hosts.
> I can run rndc to re-load the zone OK, there are no errors in /var/log/messag
> es.
> 
> When I try to resolv a name I get:
> 'connection timed out: no servers could be found'
> Which is strange as I can reverse lookup OK using host. I
> 
> My named server is bumper on 192.168.1.10
> 
> Heres my named.conf file:
> / named,conf for bumper
> options {
>      directory "/var/named";
>      query-source address 192.168.1.10 port 53;
>      };
> key "rndc_key" {
>         algorithm       hmac-md5;
>         secret "quL4b3iJ4VC5WHhNPOYVnw==";
> };
> 
> controls {
> inet 127.0.0.1 allow {localhost;} keys {rndc_key;};
> };
> 
> 
> 
> // zone for bumper
> zone "bumper.localdomain"{
>      type master;
>      file "bumper.zone";
> };
> // reverse
> zone "1.168.192.IN-ADDR.ARPA" {
> type master;
> file "bumper.revzone";
> };
> 
> zone "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa" {
>      type master;
>      file "localhost.rev";
> };
> 
> Here's the bumper.zone file ( named.db):
> ; bumper.zone
> ;
> $TTL 86400
> @       IN      SOA     bumper.localdomain. root.bumper.localdomain. (
>                00000009        ; Serial
>                10800          ; Refresh
>                3600            ; Retry
>                604800          ; Expire
>                86400)         ; Minimum
> ; name server
>                IN      NS      bumper.localdomain.
> ; local host
> localhost           IN      A       127.0.0.1
> bumper         IN   A    192.168.1.10
> comet               IN   A    192.168.1.12
> tester         IN   A    192.168.1.11
> 
> 
> Any idea's please.
> 
> David.
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