Caching Only Nameserver with Bind9?

Shawn Laemmrich swlaemmr at mtu.edu
Sat Mar 20 18:59:26 UTC 2004


Trying to get a caching-only nameserver srtup with bind9.  I'm using 
the directions directly out of the docs included with the release, and 
not getting anywhere.

3.1.1. A Caching-only Nameserver

The following sample configuration is appropriate for a caching-only name server for use by clients internal to a corporation. All queries from outside clients are refused.

// Two corporate subnets we wish to allow queries from.
acl "corpnets" { 192.168.4.0/24; 192.168.7.0/24; };
options {
     directory "/etc/namedb";           // Working directory
     pid-file "named.pid";              // Put pid file in working dir
     allow-query { "corpnets"; };
};
// Root server hints
zone "." { type hint; file "root.hint"; };
// Provide a reverse mapping for the loopback address 127.0.0.1
zone "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa" {
     type master;
     file "localhost.rev";
     notify no;
};



I used the above, and changed the ip address ranges as appropriate 
(10.0.0.* network).  However, when I try to do any nslookups on a client
I get:

 *** Can't find server name for address 10.0.0.10: Non-existent host/domain

10.0.0.10 is my nameserver.  What am I doint wrong?


Thanks

Shawn


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