Can Bind 8 Listen On My Modem IP Address?

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Just a thought, are you starting up bind before or after ppp0 is
activated and routed?  restart named in ip-up.

On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, Robert L. Cochran Jr. wrote:

> 
> I have a small 4 computer network. 2 weeks ago I registered a domain
> name of my own and I want Bind 8 to service not just the internal
> network, but my external domain name also so that someone on the
> internet can type www.mydomain.com in a browser and connect to my
> machine. However I only have a 3Com modem connected to my serial port as
> ppp0. It is just a plain 56K modem. I start a ppp0 connection to dial
> into my ISP. My problem is I can't get Bind 8 to listen in on the IP
> address issued to me by my ISP (via the modem). I can get Bind to listen
> for connections on ip addresses 192.168.0.1 (the server machine) and
> 127.0.0.1 but no matter what I do with named.conf, resolv.conf or my
> zone data files, I can't get Bind 8 to listen for a connection on my
> modem. My ISP supplies me with a static IP address (which is not related
> to the domain name I just registered -- I've had this IP address for
> some years now.) Apache server seems to detect this IP and listen on it
> just fine because I can telnet into it on port 80 and get a good
> connection. So why can't Bind listen for connections on my modem IP?
> 
> When I use nslookup and set the server to my modem's IP address, I get a
> message that the server is not responding.
> 
> Some other details: I am running Bind-8.2.2_P5-25 on a Red Hat Linux 7.0
> machine. Apache server is running. Samba is running too and it works. I
> can smbclient into the other machines from my Linux box, those machines
> can get at their shares on the Linux box. I can ping all the other
> computers on my network, they can ping me, and when I type
> www.mydomain.com from the browser of any internal network machine it
> brings up my web page just fine. From a machine on (any) external
> network, if I type www.mydomain.com in a browser I will eventually get a
> message saying that the server is not available.
> 
> 
> Thanks for all your help with this.
> 
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