Bind not listening?

[Aaron Dougherty]

Hi All,
I've spent quite some time looking for an answer to this problem. I've
been running bind for a few months with no problems. A couple days ago,
the server quit responding to port 53. I don't recall making any changes
(but you never know ^_^).

starting the server doesn't seem to have any problems

[root at naboo zone]# ndc start
new pid is 1269
[root at naboo zone]# ps -aux | grep named
root      1269  0.0  1.0  2704 1652 ?        S    14:06   0:00
/usr/sbin/named

syslog does not seem to be reporting any errors (below)

BUT, if I telnet port 53 on the server, the connection hangs, and of
course an nslookup against that server fails. Any hints or clues as to why
this would be happening would be greatly appreciated. (Even answeres are
great! ^_^)

Thanks!

-Aaron


A summary of my syslog (everything looks good to me)

Aug 14 13:32:59 naboo named[1216]: starting (/etc/named.conf).  named
8.2.3-REL Sat Jan 27 05:11:05 EST 2001 ^Iprospector at por
ky.devel.redhat.com:/usr/src/bs/BUILD/bind-8.2.3/src/bin/named
Aug 14 13:32:59 naboo named[1216]: hint zone "" (IN) loaded (serial 0)
Aug 14 13:33:00 naboo named[1216]: Zone "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa" (file
zone/127.0.0): No default TTL ($TTL <value>) set, using 
SOA minimum instead
Aug 14 13:33:00 naboo named[1216]: master zone
"0.0.127.in-addr.arpa" (IN) loaded (serial 199609203)
Aug 14 13:33:00 naboo named[1216]: Zone "147.12.66.in-addr.arpa" (file
zone/66.12.147): No default TTL ($TTL <value>) set, us
ing SOA minimum instead
Aug 14 13:33:00 naboo named[1216]: master zone
"147.12.66.in-addr.arpa" (IN) loaded (serial 199609203)
Aug 14 13:33:00 naboo named[1216]: Zone "swsim.com" (file
zone/swsim.com): No default TTL ($TTL <value>) set, using SOA minim
um instead
Aug 14 13:33:00 naboo named[1216]: master zone "swsim.com" (IN) loaded
(serial 199609206)
Aug 14 13:33:00 naboo named[1216]: listening on [127.0.0.1].53 (lo)
Aug 14 13:33:00 naboo named[1216]: listening on [66.12.147.134].53 (eth0)
Aug 14 13:33:00 naboo named[1216]: Forwarding source address is
[0.0.0.0].1031
Aug 14 13:33:00 naboo named[1217]: Ready to answer queries.