listening on different ip addresses

[Kevin Darcy]

Well, 9.1.0 is pretty old. Before you do anything else, upgrade and see if the problem goes away.


- Kevin

Vasiliy Boulytchev wrote:

> Ladies and gents,
>     My problem seems extremely simple, yet its driving me absolutely nuts.
>     Logs are stating that the server is starting up properly and is listening on all the interfaces (default)
>     I take the firewall rules down (to be sure, although its configured properly)
>
>     When I do nslookup (from the console)
>         server localhost
>             yahoo.com
>             replies just fine
>         server wanip
>             yahoo.com
>             times out
>
> WHAT THE HECK?
>
> Here's a snapshot of /var/log/messages:
>  starting BIND 9.1.0 -u named
> May  2 15:50:02 www named[3817]: using 2 CPUs
> May  2 15:50:02 www named[3819]: loading configuration from '/etc/named.conf'
> May  2 15:50:02 www named: named startup succeeded
> May  2 15:50:02 www named[3819]: the default for the 'auth-nxdomain' option is now 'no'
> May  2 15:50:02 www named[3819]: option 'multiple-cnames' is obsolete
> May  2 15:50:02 www named[3819]: no IPv6 interfaces found
> May  2 15:50:02 www named[3819]: listening on IPv4 interface lo, 127.0.0.1#53
> May  2 15:50:02 www named[3819]: listening on IPv4 interface eth0, wanip#53
> May  2 15:50:02 www named[3819]: listening on IPv4 interface eth1, anothernic#53
> May  2 15:50:03 www named[3819]: running
>
>     Here's the top section of my named.conf
>
> options {
>         directory "/usr/local/named";
>         pid-file "/var/run/named/named.pid";
>         transfer-format many-answers;
>         notify yes;
>         multiple-cnames yes;
>         allow-transfer {
>                 blabla;
>                 blablabla;
>                 127.0.0.1;
>                 };
>         also-notify {
>                 secondarydnsserverasdfasdf;
>                 };
>         };
>
> zone "." {
>         type hint;
>         file "/usr/local/named/root.hints";
>         };
>
>
> Thanks,
> Vasiliy Boulytchev
> Colorado Information Technologies Inc.