bind9 on debian

[Kevin Darcy]

Gruff wrote:

>Hi
>
>Im currently tryign to setup BIND9 on my debian box. I install BIND9 via
>"apt-get install bind9".  Named starts fine, but I do not get a responce
>when I query the server, so im assuming I must have my configuration files
>wrong. hopefully someone will spot my mistakes? as you can see, I have added
>test.com which im using as a test.
>
What exactly do you mean by "do not get a responce [sic] when I query 
the server"? Do you get an *error* response, or does it just time out? 
If it times out, then check out your /etc/resolv.conf to verify that 
you're actually sending queries to the correct address, and check that 
the nameserver is listening on that address. Failing that, turn on query 
logging to verify that the nameserver is actually seeing the query.

If you're getting some sort of error response, then please tell us what 
it is. It's a little hard to troubleshoot otherwise. Note that if you 
haven't set up reverse lookup for the address of your nameserver, then 
that is going to present problems for the "nslookup" utility. This is 
one of the many reasons why "dig" is a preferred lookup tool.

                                                                         
                                                            - Kevin