trouble with dns

[Simon Waters]

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localhost wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I have a linux machine with bind and all seems fine locally. I
can do
> nslookups, dig, host, all fine, but the windows machines on
the lan
> cannot use it. Here are the error messages in the linux logfiles.
>
>
>     client 192.168.0.206#1025: error sending response: host
unreachable:
> 4 Time(s)
>     client 192.168.0.206#1478: error sending response: host
unreachable:
> 4 Time(s)
>     client 192.168.0.206#1481: error sending response: host
unreachable:
> 4 Time(s)
> .............
>
> the 192.168.0.206 is one of the windows machines on the lan,
the log
> file shows similar errors for all the other windows machines
as well...
>
> I'm not sure were to start... Please Help :)

host unreachable usually indicates a basic networking problem.

I'd start with can both machines ping each other.

Fouled up firewalling would seem the most likely culprit.

You might try showing output of "netstat -r", "ifconfig -a" and
your firewall rules to a Linux group (support your local lug).

Do you have networking issues between these boxes with any other
protocols?
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