Dns

[Ben Pfaff]

"Scott Overfield 7239" <soverfield@fnac-usa.com> writes:

> i have set up BIND and set up the "domain.db" file in /var/named, and i am 
> able to resolve internet names, ie, ping hosts by name, however, i can not 
> resolve names from my internal net.

Is BIND loading your domain file?  Check your system log files
for messages something like this:

Nov 28 16:13:38 pfaffben named[9171]: starting.  named 8.2.2-P7-NOESW Sat Nov 11 16:09:54 MST 2000 ^Ibdale@winfree:/home/bdale/tmp/bind-tmp/bind-8.2.2p7/src/bin/named
Nov 28 16:13:38 pfaffben named[9171]: hint zone "" (IN) loaded (serial 0)
Nov 28 16:13:38 pfaffben named[9171]: master zone "localhost" (IN) loaded (serial 1)
Nov 28 16:13:38 pfaffben named[9171]: master zone "127.in-addr.arpa" (IN) loaded (serial 1)
Nov 28 16:13:38 pfaffben named[9171]: master zone "0.in-addr.arpa" (IN) loaded (serial 1)
Nov 28 16:13:38 pfaffben named[9171]: master zone "255.in-addr.arpa" (IN) loaded (serial 1)
Nov 28 16:13:38 pfaffben named[9171]: master zone "quux.net" (IN) loaded (serial 2000072801)
Nov 28 16:13:38 pfaffben named[9171]: master zone "128.168.192.in-addr.arpa" (IN) loaded (serial 2000072801)
Nov 28 16:13:38 pfaffben named[9171]: listening on [127.0.0.1].53 (lo)
Nov 28 16:13:38 pfaffben named[9171]: listening on [35.10.20.24].53 (eth0)
Nov 28 16:13:38 pfaffben named[9171]: Forwarding source address is [0.0.0.0].1073
Nov 28 16:13:38 pfaffben named[9172]: Ready to answer queries.

Make sure that your internal net is listed; e.g., "quux.net"
above.
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