SERVFAIL - BIND DNS lookup

[Guest Jeffery]

I have a Mandrake box operating as a firewall for my network and have installed BIND so that it can act as a DNS caching server for the workstations internal to the network.

 

For the most part DNS works on this box but for some domains mostly at random and it doesn't matter what TLD they are in I get a SERVFAIL message from it. Here is a sample of what I'm talking about.

 

i installed bind using:

 

# urpmi caching-nameserver

 

after doing that I get SERVFAIL errors on certain domains. The following queries we done directly from the firewall box.

 

# nslookup

> trillian.cc

;; Got SERVFAIL reply from 127.0.0.1, trying next server

Server: 207.109.240.1

Address: 207.109.240.1#53

 

Non-authoritative answer:

Name: trillian.cc

Address: 66.216.70.167

> yahoo.com

Server: 127.0.0.1

Address: 127.0.0.1#53

 

Non-authoritative answer:

Name: yahoo.com

Address: 66.94.234.13

Name: yahoo.com

Address: 216.109.112.135

>

 

The named.conf file is in the default configuration it had when it installed except that I changed the following lines to allow my internal network access to DNS.

 

recursion yes;

allow-query { 192.168.1.0/24; 127.0.0.1;};

allow-recursion { 192.168.1.0/24; 127.0.0.1;};

 

The root hint file has been updated as a another forum suggested by using the following command:

 

dig @J.ROOT-SERVERS.NET . ns > /var/lib/named/var/named/named.ca

 

Can anyone shed a light on what my problem is here? I thought may this was a bug of some kind but even after updating everything on the system including the kernel I still get the same results.

[Guest Jeffery]

This is still a problem for me. I've exhausted any options I could find and see no one has responded to this issue. Do I need to post additional information or is everyone at a loss on what's happening as I am?