Getting an error on a simple DNS configuration

[Samad Agha]

Dear Tony, Bob, & Matus,

Thank you very much for your advice, you guys are awesome.

On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 1:03 PM, Matus UHLAR - fantomas <uhlar at fantomas.sk>
wrote:

> On 03.06.15 12:34, Samad Agha wrote:
>
>> So, when I query my new DNS server from itself (206.117.115.93), it
>> resolves the name to an IP, but when I query my new DNS server from
>> another
>> Linux box, it fails with the following error message.
>>
>
> you must allow BIND to provide recursive DNS for other hosts, by
> configuring "allow-recursion". otherwise, it will provide DNS resolution
> only for its
> local networks (directly connected to host interfaces).
>
>> [root at new-dns2 ~]# nslookup google.com 206.117.115.93
>>
>
> don't use nslookup, it's very bad tool for debugging DNS problems.
> learn using host and/or dig
>
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