Need help with DNS mini-lab

[Barry Margolin]

In article <d36i67$1ka0$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
 "Joshua Peter" <fsjcp2 at hotmail.com> wrote:

> #NS2 /etc/named.conf
> // generated by named-bootconf.pl
> 
> options {
>         directory "/var/named";
>         /*
>          * If there is a firewall between you and nameservers you want
>          * to talk to, you might need to uncomment the query-source
>          * directive below.  Previous versions of BIND always asked
>          * questions using port 53, but BIND 8.1 uses an unprivileged
>          * port by default.
>          */
> query-source address 192.168.1.200 port 53;
> };
....
> 
> #NS2 cat /var/log/messages (relevant to named reload)
> Apr  8 09:32:53 ns2 named[1650]: loading configuration from 
> '/etc/named.conf'
> Apr  8 09:32:53 ns2 named[1650]: no IPv6 interfaces found
> Apr  8 09:32:53 ns2 named[1650]: could not get query source dispatcher
> Apr  8 09:32:53 ns2 named[1650]: reloading configuration failed: address not 
> available
> Apr  8 09:32:53 ns2 named: named reload succeeded

The query source has to be one of this machine's addresses.  You've got 
the address of NS1 in NS2's query-source option.

-- 
Barry Margolin, barmar at alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
*** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me ***