Caching nameServer

[Len Conrad]

>options {
>
>directory "/var/named";
>
>listen-on {192.168.0.20;};
>
>pid-file "named.pid";
>
>};
>
>zone "." { type hint;  file "named.ca"; };

stop here, you don´t need any other zone statements since the machine is 
authoritative for no zones.

you also want to restrict queries and recursion to your ip blocks, and 
fetch-glue no, if runing BIND8.

>When I have a client point to this DNS address. Resolution fails. I dont see
>anything in the logs.

If you have query and debug logging turned on, you should see their queries 
coming in.  If you don´t, then their queries aren´t arriving at the DNS.

when you, on the box itself, run

dig @cache.dns some.domain

what does dig say?  named.run?

Len



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