Bind9 - connection timed out; no servers could be reached
Mark Andrews
Mark_Andrews at isc.org
Sat Jul 16 10:25:52 UTC 2005
> Mark Andrews wrote:
> >
> > Supply a root (".") zone.
>
> Hello,
>
> that doesn't help. I'e read, that if no root.hint is supplied, i's taken
> the compiledin root.hint.
No, if no root zone (hints/master/slave) is supplied it uses the
compiled in hints.
You could supply a empty root hints and named will return SERVFAIL.
(No records at all)
You could supply a (empty) root zone and named will return NXDOMAIN.
(SOA and NS for . only)
> But anyway, I've got it.. I installt bind9 under Debian Sarge. there is
> a better commented named.conf. They nearly solve the proble in my way.
> They include a file, which breference to the private subnets (rfc1918).
>
> eg: include "/etc/bind/zones.rfc1918";
>
> In zones.rfc1918 are all private nets, they reference to an empty zonefile.
>
> eg: zone "10.in-addr.arpa" { type master; file "/etc/bind/db.empty"; };
>
> One question, is tha the correct way or just a workaround?
>
> Thanks,
> Tanja
As I said. Supply a root zone.
zone "." { type master; file "/etc/bind/db.empty"; };
Mark
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