BIND on win2k and logging

[Cricket Liu]

N. Rundle wrote:
> This will go a lot faster if someone can tell me how to debug issues
> with BIND.  I happen to be running this on a Win2k machine and I need
> to know of any logs that are generated or how to generate some.
> 
> Specifically, I set up my zone and I can do a dig on my domain and it
> returns the correct information.  However, all digs on other domains
> return just the root servers in the authority section and no specific
> results. 

Sounds like you turned recursion off, or restricted access to it with
allow-recursion.

> Also, I have tried to set my own machine to use this dns server and I
> can't resolve any domains, including the one I set up.  How can I
> tell if the requests are even making it to the dns server?  What can
> I do to debug this problem?

Turn on query logging with rndc querylog and look in the Event
Viewer.

cricket

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