Problems with upgrade to 9.5.1b1

Rob Tanner rtanner at linfield.edu
Tue Jul 15 16:34:08 UTC 2008


I'm running bind 9.3.4 (a Fedora Core distro version) and trying to 
upgrade to (technically, replace it with) 9.5.1b1.  I simply ran 
configure (no options) and make and then installed it.  Since it 
installs in /usr/local, that doesn't create a problem as I can run one 
version of the other.
I'm doing initial testing with nslookup and the problem I'm seeing with 
9.5.1b1 is that while it correctly resolves in all cases for host names 
and IP addresses that are local (i.e., names/addresses for which it's 
authoritative), when I try other lookups, for instance, www.cnn.com, 
nslookup I get different results, depending on whether or not the query 
is coming from a machine in the same address segment is the DNS server.  
Queries coming from machine within the same IP segment as the DNS server 
work fine.  Queries coming from machines in different address segments 
get th response:

                  ** server can't find <host name>: REFUSED

At the same time I get a log entry like:

   client 10.219.255.250#39750: view internal: query (cache) 
'www.cnn.com/A/IN' denied

I get this using the same db files and named.conf file that 9.3.4 runs 
against and I don't have this problem with 9.3.4.  I'm assuming that 
it's some sort of configuration issue, but I don't know what.  Any 
ideas?  Would it help if I posted my named.conf file (or would I 
becreating an issue for mself by making that file public).

Thanks,

Rob Tanner
UNIX Service Manager
Linfield College





More information about the bind-users mailing list