Prob between 9.1.3 and 8.2.1

[Michael Kjorling]

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On May 21 2002 21:03 -0000, PhWashington wrote:

>  I noticed that one of our DNS servers was not answering nslookup and
> starting looking into why.  The configuration files appear to be exactly
> the same.  The system which wouldn't respond to nslookup was running
> bind 9.1.3.  I configured 2 MS(W2K and NT) machines to query this system
> and neither one could get a response with either nslookup or a browser.
> Looking at the config files the forwarders were exactly the same.  After
> reading some of the documents I added 'auth-nxdomain yes' to the
> options.  I'm not sure exactly what this does, but if I was reading
> correctly this was the default setting in 8.2.1.  I restarted named and
> looked in the message log and saw nothing that indicated an error.
>   I'm assuming now that both of these systems were originally configured
> with 8.2.1  on RH7.2 and one was subsequently upgraded to 9.1.3.
>   I would appreciate any help in trying to figure out what could have
> gone wrong.  I'm assuming that there was a change required in the
> configuration and it wasn't completed.

I for sure hope you mean 9.2.1? 8.2.1 is SERIOUSLY outdated these
days.

Posting your domain name would certainly help people debug this
problem.


Michael Kjörling

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