Named not responding to remote requests

[Vincent Britton]

I have installed bind 9.2.1 from source on to a Linux 7.2 Server. 

 

I uninstalled the rpm based version of Bind/Bind tool and complied with:

 ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/packages/bind-9.2.1 --sysconfdir=/etc 

--localstatedir=/var/run 

--mandir=/usr/share/man 

--with-libtool --with-openssl

 

However when I run bind it will answer local queries for domain names that
it is authoritative for but not remote other domains (ie dig www.google.com
fails with:

; <<>> DiG 9.2.1 <<>> www.google.com

;; global options:  printcmd

;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached

).

 

But I query for a name that it is authoritative for it works perfectly!

 

Also if I query for any domain name from another machine (remote client) it
errors with "no response from server"

 

Please help if you can!

 

Named.conf:

 

options {

        directory "/var/named";

        pid-file "named.pid";

        allow-query { any; };           // Will you work with this

};

 

// rndc info

 

controls {

        inet * allow { any; } keys { "Kns1atl-ns2atl.wiznet.com"; };

};

 

include "/etc/named.keys";

 

// rndc info end

 

zone "." { type hint; file "named.ca" ;};

 

zone "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa" in {

        type master;

        file "named.local";

};