BIND Server Problem

[Barry Margolin]

In article <a1ne0e$6s0 at pub3.rc.vix.com>, Alaa Alamood  <aaa at alamood.dk> wrote:
>I'm runnig bind version 8.2.2-P5-plus-CA-2000-20-plus-CA-2001-02 in my 

If you must run BIND 8.2.x, why not 8.2.5?

>server which have tru64 unix
>when I try to nslookup to my internal zone I get answer back without any 
>problem, but when I'm try to lookup to an external machine I get
>mybindServer.example.com can't find www.yahoo.com: Non-existent host/domain
>
>when I install an older version of bind server like 
>"4.9.3-P1-plus-CA-98.05-patches" on the same machine evey think working 
>fine, and I can nslookup to external and internal machine

Do you have a firewall that only allows port 53 in to your server?  BIND 8
doesn't use 53 as the source port for recursive queries, so you have to
allow all high-numbered ports in or use the "query-source" option
named.conf to force it to use a specific source port.

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