HELP!!! - No responses from DNS server

[Roy Arends]

On Sun, 11 Mar 2001, J. Chan wrote:

> Dear everybody,
> 
> I am just install RedHat 7.0 as a server with default options. I have
> then config the server and workstation as follow :-

The workstation fails to resolve an IP address for ns1 and ns2. Put A
records in you zonefiles for the nameservers.

> When I ping from the Linux server the IP addresses 192.168.0.1,
> 192.168.0.2, 192.168.0.3, 192.168.0.4, 192.168.0.5, or by domain name
> server1.mydomain.com, server2.mydomain.com, server3.mydomain.com,
> ns1.mydomain.com, ns2.mydomain.com, everything is okey.

The server resolves the NS records to IP's using the /etc/hosts file.


> If I load the web page from the workstation PC with the URL :
> http://192.168.0.1, http://192.168.0.2, http://192.168.0.3,
> http://192.168.0.4, http://192.168.0.5, it is also okey.
> 
> But if I load the web page from the workstation PC with the URL :
> http://server1.mydomain.com, http://server2.mydomain.com,
> http://server3.mydomain.com, if failed.
> 
> Also, if I execute the nslookup from the Linux server, the following
> message appear :-
> 
>    *** Can't find server name for address 192.168.0.4: no response from server
>    *** Can't find server name for address 192.168.0.5: no response from server
>    *** Default servers are not available
> 
> The BIND seem to be not working at all. But the following command shown that BIND is running :-
> 
>    ps -aux | grep named
> 
> Therefore, what's wrong within my installation / configuration. Can anyone please help me ?
> 
> Thank you very much.

Roy Arends
Nominum