problems with root servers... (fwd)

[Barry Margolin]

In article <Pine.LNX.4.10.10003111409050.18852-100000 at clarice.ucab.edu.ve>,
Humberto Gomez Lopez  <hugomez at ucab.edu.ve> wrote:
>  I have some trouble with bind 8.2.2-p5.  On my secondary server, it
>resolves our local zones, but It doesn't resolve addresses with the
>rootservers. I have checked the connectivity from outside our network and
>all is ok.  I have found this when run ndc status
>..... 
>server is STILL priming
>server IS NOT loading its configuration
>
>I think the still priming have something to do with that.

Do you have a firewall or packet filter?  If you recently upgraded from
BIND 4 to BIND 8, you may need to change the filter to allow UDP to high
ports into your network, or change the named.conf file to include:

	query-source port 53;

to the options section.

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