Dig gives ;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached-

[Danny Mayer]

You server (ham.tarekham.com) is not responding to any queries.  It doesn't
seem to be a zone or configuration file issue.

         Danny
At 03:10 PM 1/1/02, Tarek Hamdy wrote:
>Happy new year all,
>
>I am running RH 7.2 with kernel 2.4.9.  I have been troublshooting my bind
>9.1.3 since Christmas eve having made no progress. My zone files are not
>loading due to asyntax error I am unable to find. I have read hundreds of
>articles, been to many web sites including the latest bind 9.1.3 howto, but
>so it does not work. I am running RH 7.2 with BIND 9.1.3 and
>iptables 1.2.4... I post ed my files below:
>
>controls {
>         inet 127.0.0.1 allow { localhost; } keys { rndckey; };
>};
>
>include "/etc/rndc.key";
>options {
>  directory "/var/named/";
>  forwarders{
>   64.124.114.2;
>   208.184.12.8;
>  };
>  auth-nxdomain yes;
>  allow-query { 192.168.113.32/27; 64.124.114.2; localhost; };
>  allow-recursion { 192.168.113.32/27; localhost; };
>};
>zone  "." {
>  type hint;
>  file  "named.ca";
>};
>zone  "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa" {
>  type master;
>  file  "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa.zone";
>};
>zone  "11.184.208.in-addr.arpa" {
>  type master;
>  file  "11.184.208.in-addr.arpa.zone";
>};
>zone  "localhost" {
>  type master;
>  file  "localhost.zone";
>};
>zone  "tarekham.com" {
>  type master;
>  allow-transfer { 192.168.113.32/27; localhost; };
>  file  "tarekham.com.zone";
>};
>zone  "th.tarekham.com" {
>  type master;
>  file  "th.tarekham.com.zone";
>};
>
>Zone file:
>
>
>
>$TTL 86400
>$ORIGIN tarekham.com.
>@       IN       SOA    ham.tarekham.com. thamdy.ham.tarekham.com (
>                     2002010104 ; serial
>                     28800 ; refresh
>                     7200 ; retry
>                     604800 ; expire
>                     86400 ; ttl
>)
>                     IN      NS         ham
>                     IN      MX  10  ham
>ham              IN      A           208.184.11.178
>
>Reverse Zone
>
>$TTL 86400
>@        IN     SOA ham.tarekham.com. thamdy.ham.tarekham.com (
>                     2002010105 ; serial
>                     28800 ; refresh
>                     7200 ; retry
>                     604800 ; expire
>                     86400 ; ttk
>)
>            IN      NS  ham
>178     IN      PTR ham
>
>Resolve Conf
>
>domain tarekham.com
>search tarekham.com
>nameserver 127.0.0.1
>nameserver 208.184.11.178
># nameserver 64.124.114.2
>
>When I run dig ham.tarekham.com
>
>; <<>> DiG 9.1.3 <<>> ham.tarekham.com.
>;; global options:  printcmd
>;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached
>
>When I uncomment the last item in the resolve.conf, I get an answer, but it
>is non-authoritative.  The
>MX entry in tarekham.com zone is not recongnized because it is not loading.
>
>When I reload named, I no errors in the log
>
>Dec 30 14:41:12 ham named: named startup succeeded
>Dec 30 14:41:12 ham named[13909]: no IPv6 interfaces found
>Dec 30 14:41:12 ham named[13909]: listening on IPv4 interface lo,
>127.0.0.1#53
>Dec 30 14:41:12 ham named[13909]: listening on IPv4 interface eth0,
>192.168.113.33#53
>Dec 30 14:41:12 ham named[13909]: listening on IPv4 interface eth1,
>208.184.11.178#53
>Dec 30 14:41:12 ham named[13909]: command channel listening on 127.0.0.1#953
>Dec 30 14:41:13 ham named[13909]: running
>
>I will keep checking here and watch my e-mail. Any help would be
>appreciated.
>
>Tarek Hamdy
>
>thamdy at dontspammeequixnet.net
>Just remove the dontsspammee, I am on quixnet.net.
>