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

[Cris Rhea]

> 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

You have no errors here, syntax or otherwise... ;)

Aside from the comments others have made regarding improvments in your
config files, I'd be looking at the iptables configs rather than 
BIND configs. 

Your server isn't answering queries (or the queries aren't getting to
the BIND software). 

Since you didn't say how you configured iptables (ipCHAINS is enabled
by default in RH7.2), I can't say where the problem might be, but your
symptoms indicate to me that it's a firewall issue and not just a BIND
issue.

--- Cris


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