Cannot get my named to resolve external addresses. Could NAT be the culprit?

[jogeedaklown at yahoo.com]

Hello,
I'm a complete newbie when it comes to BIND9. So bear with me.  I'm
attempted to setup a DNS server but I am unable to resolve external
addresses but I can resolve my internal addresses.  It does works when
I uncomment the "forwarders" line.  But I do not not want to rely on
external servers.  My DNS is NAT'ed so is that one of the reasons it's
not working?

When I run my named using this command

"/usr/sbin/named -u named -g -d 3"

I get "too many timeouts, disabling EDNS0" errors?


Here's my named.conf setup below and thanks in advance.

Jose

options {
   directory "/var/named";
   dump-file "/var/named/data/cache_dump.db";
   statistics-file "/var/named/data/named_stats.txt";
// forwarders { 192.12.95.2; 192.12.95.5; };
   /*
    * 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 * port 53;
};

//
// a caching only nameserver config
//
controls {
   inet 127.0.0.1 allow { localhost; } keys { rndckey; };
};

zone "." IN {
   type hint;
   file "/var/named/db.cache";
};

zone "localdomain" IN {
   type master;
   file "localdomain.zone";
   allow-update { none; };
};

zone "localhost" IN {
   type master;
   file "localhost.zone";
   allow-update { none; };
};

zone "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa" IN {
   type master;
   file "named.local";
   allow-update { none; };
};

zone
"0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.ip6.arpa"
IN {
        type master;
   file "named.ip6.local";
   allow-update { none; };
};

zone "255.in-addr.arpa" IN {
   type master;
   file "named.broadcast";
   allow-update { none; };

};

zone "0.in-addr.arpa" IN {
   type master;
   file "named.zero";
   allow-update { none; };
};

zone "cheopa.com" {
   type master;
   file "cheopa.com.db";
};

zone "0.0.10.in-addr.arpa" {
   type master;
   file "0.0.10.rev";
};