Dial in customers unable to view websites and other problems

[James]

> 
> 
>> I just finished a new attempt at installing bind 8 and after running
>> into some problems I had to re-enable bind 4.9.5 so my customers could
>> have access to the Internet.
>> 
>> What happened after I installed it is this, customers were able to log
>> in, but they could not receive web sites.  I thought this might have
>> been related to the fact that the domain that they authenticate to not
>> being properly set up after the install.  So, I made the named.conf file
>> and added the zones to it as is necessary and made a few changes to the
>> zone files including the $ttl option.  I then rebooted the server and
>> kept having the same problem.  Then on a whim I decided to change the
>> tcp\ip settings for the dial up customers and specified the DNS servers
>> under Windows.  That fixed the problem outright, the only problem with
>> this is that I can't change some 500 people tcp\ip settings!
> 
>> Aren't you using DHCP?
> 
No, the system we're running provides dial up acces for 46 unique 
customers at one time.  One modem per customer and one preset  ip per 
modem.

> What do your logs say? BIND 4 was very permissive; BIND 8 is less so. So
> maybe you have something illegal in your zonefiles that BIND 8 is choking
> on. The logs should reveal any problems.

One problem that I found through the log is that it can't find the 
domains that I attempt to go to externally.  When I type in yahoo.com 
for instance it attempt to resolve the name to the nameserver but it 
fails everytime.  I was wondering if this was because the db.cache was 
configured wrong in the named.conf file or if  the name server was not 
properly loading.  Any suggestions on either?

>> Second problem I'm having is that after I make the switch to v8 and
>> change over the zone files my domains quit working.  I even redid the db
>> files on a few of them based on the the example but that had no effect.
>> 
>> Last question, can someone give me a hand with the script that is
>> supposed to change over the zone and named.boot files for me?  I can't
>> find anything that will run it.
> 
> You don't have Perl *or* something Bourne-shell compatible? What kind of
> platform is this? VMS?

Windows NT 4

> Just out of curiosity, if you haven't been able to convert your named.boot
> into a named.conf, what are you using for a named.conf? And if you haven't
> even created a named.conf, why would you expect your BIND 8 nameserver to
> run at all?

I downloaded the config pack and added my changes to the named.conf to 
make it work.  I then changed my current zones syntax to reflect  the 
differences between 4.9.5 and 8.

Thanks for all of you help,
James