Guest NadBlaster Posted December 4, 2002 Report Share Posted December 4, 2002 I have been fighting this problem for a week. I installed M9.0 as a DNS/Web server. The web server and FTP works fine. DNS won't respond but It is running as verified by ps -ef | grep named, and it can be seen on port 53 by WhatsUp network status monitor. It has carefully crafted /etc/named.conf which references three public domain aliases each with their own files in /var/named. They are named.data, named1.data and named2.data. I have read the DNS howto and man named.conf. I run DNS on an AIX box but I can't find an error anywhere. The init log shows named started and listening on 53. It looks like named has not started a log of it's own. As I said, the web server and FTP works fine. I thought it might be a security issue but I did not install the Firewall, the installed security is standard and all of the files are owned by named/named. It also won't update the secondary DNS server. It goes thru a firewall from a private IP range but it is replacing an existing and working NT4 DNS box with the same IP address and machine name. It just sits there working/listening/not responding. I realize that every dot matters in these files but I have been over it many times. I always reboot after a change even though a stop/start would probably be fine. Security issue maybe? Can anyone help me? Thanks Rudy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul Posted December 4, 2002 Report Share Posted December 4, 2002 when I build a DNS server I constantly, from another computer on the network do a "dig @192.168.1.1 mandrakeusers.org" if there is no access to the dns server (its not running or a firewall is blocking it) then it will return .. no DNS server found you can also do this from the DNS machine dig @localhost mandrakeusers.org if it returns anything (not an error of course) then its working fine, and could be a network/security issue Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest NadBlaster Posted December 4, 2002 Report Share Posted December 4, 2002 Thats great advice. I normally use symplification to isolate problems in other areas. I reloaded M9 again just to make sure that if I did nothing, would the service respond if started. It didn't. I had an entire college down for over 5 days trying to get the thing going. This morning I blew the drive and loaded RH8 and used it's GUI NameServer feature and got it back up. I would have rather found out the problem on M9 because I like it better otherwise. I took your advice and started small and tested as I went. Thanks for the response. Rudy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest NadBlaster Posted December 4, 2002 Report Share Posted December 4, 2002 PS, I did discover that the RH8 GUI woould not take serial numbers larger than 10. Mine had been 11 in the M9 attempts. Guess that could have done it. :wink: Rudy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul Posted December 4, 2002 Report Share Posted December 4, 2002 one thing I have noticed with MDK and Bind, is Mandrake have an odd variable $ORIGIN ... my entries wouldn't work with these in, and the server work fine without them ..... can't figure out why MDK would put them there ??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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