Re: bind9 prevents external access

2007-03-30 Thread Jeff Dickison
On Wed, 21 Mar 2007, Justin Hartman wrote: Hi guys Very strange problem which I'm sure is pretty easy to fix - if you know how. I installed bind9 with lsb-base on a Debian Etch system. The problem is that as soon as bind9 is installed I can no longer ping or access external sites from the bind9

Re: bind9 prevents external access

2007-03-21 Thread Jeff D
On Thu, 22 Mar 2007, Justin Hartman wrote: Correction - /var/log/daemon.log does show an error relating to bind: Mar 22 06:16:46 justinhartman lwresd[2413]: starting BIND 9.3.4 Mar 22 06:16:46 justinhartman lwresd[2413]: found 1 CPU, using 1 worker Mar 22 06:16:46 justinhartman lwresd[2413]: n

Re: bind9 prevents external access

2007-03-21 Thread Justin Hartman
Correction - /var/log/daemon.log does show an error relating to bind: Mar 22 06:16:46 justinhartman lwresd[2413]: starting BIND 9.3.4 Mar 22 06:16:46 justinhartman lwresd[2413]: found 1 CPU, using 1 worker thread Mar 22 06:16:46 justinhartman lwresd[2413]: loading configuration from '/etc/bind/lw

Re: bind9 prevents external access

2007-03-21 Thread Justin Hartman
There are absolutely zero errors in the syslog file on either startup or when I do any look ups. On 3/22/07, Julian De Marchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 3/22/07, Jeff D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Just out of curiosity, are you seeing any errors in your logs when you > do > > these look

Re: bind9 prevents external access

2007-03-21 Thread Jeff D
On Thu, 22 Mar 2007, Justin Hartman wrote: On 3/22/07, Jeff D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Just out of curiosity, are you seeing any errors in your logs when you do these look ups or when the server starts? Where exactly would I find the right log files to see this info? -- Regards Justin Hart

RE: bind9 prevents external access

2007-03-21 Thread Julian De Marchi
> On 3/22/07, Jeff D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Just out of curiosity, are you seeing any errors in your logs when you > do > > these look ups or when the server starts? > > Where exactly would I find the right log files to see this info? /var/log/syslog -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAI

Re: bind9 prevents external access

2007-03-21 Thread Justin Hartman
On 3/22/07, Jeff D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Just out of curiosity, are you seeing any errors in your logs when you do these look ups or when the server starts? Where exactly would I find the right log files to see this info? -- Regards Justin Hartman PGP Key ID: 102CC123 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

RE: bind9 prevents external access

2007-03-21 Thread Julian De Marchi
> > On 3/21/07, Jeff D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> so with a clean bind install you still are not able to do lookups? > > > > Correct. Clean install > > > >> what does host google.com 127.0.0.1 give you? > > > > $ host google.com 127.0.0.1 > > ;; connection timed out; no servers could be reac

Re: bind9 prevents external access

2007-03-21 Thread Jeff D
On Wed, 21 Mar 2007, Justin Hartman wrote: On 3/21/07, Jeff D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: so with a clean bind install you still are not able to do lookups? Correct. Clean install what does host google.com 127.0.0.1 give you? $ host google.com 127.0.0.1 ;; connection timed out; no servers

Re: bind9 prevents external access

2007-03-21 Thread Justin Hartman
On 3/21/07, Jeff D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ok, check /etc/bind/named.conf , make sure you have : zone "." { type hint; file "/etc/bind/db.root"; }; Yes I do. I also have the following rdns entries directly below that: zone "127.in-addr.arpa" { type master; fi

Re: bind9 prevents external access

2007-03-21 Thread Jeff D
On Wed, 21 Mar 2007, Justin Hartman wrote: On 3/21/07, Jeff D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: so with a clean bind install you still are not able to do lookups? Correct. Clean install what does host google.com 127.0.0.1 give you? $ host google.com 127.0.0.1 ;; connection timed out; no servers

Re: bind9 prevents external access

2007-03-21 Thread Justin Hartman
Could this issue also not have something to do with the way in which my interfaces is setup? I'm thinking aloud here because I don't really know but in order for me to be able to setup two nameservers I was assigned a new IP range which I had to configure in the /etc/network/interfaces file. My

Re: bind9 prevents external access

2007-03-21 Thread Justin Hartman
On 3/21/07, Jeff D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: so with a clean bind install you still are not able to do lookups? Correct. Clean install what does host google.com 127.0.0.1 give you? $ host google.com 127.0.0.1 ;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached $ nslookup google.com 127

Re: bind9 prevents external access

2007-03-21 Thread Jeff D
On Wed, 21 Mar 2007, Justin Hartman wrote: Soma thanks for your input - by removing bind and playing with resolv.conf it is apparent that this file was causing certain issues. I have now installed resolvconf and after rebooting resolvconf configured only one line in resolv.conf file as follows:

Re: bind9 prevents external access

2007-03-21 Thread Justin Hartman
Soma thanks for your input - by removing bind and playing with resolv.conf it is apparent that this file was causing certain issues. I have now installed resolvconf and after rebooting resolvconf configured only one line in resolv.conf file as follows: nameserver: 127.0.0.1 Prior to installing

Re: bind9 prevents external access

2007-03-21 Thread Soma R
On 3/21/07, Justin Hartman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 3/21/07, Oliver Jato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > sorry, i forgot that you'll have to add "recursion yes;" to enable recursion. > the allow-recursion part was only to filter for whom your bind will resolve > recursive queries. you'll have

Re: bind9 prevents external access

2007-03-21 Thread Justin Hartman
On 3/21/07, Oliver Jato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: sorry, i forgot that you'll have to add "recursion yes;" to enable recursion. the allow-recursion part was only to filter for whom your bind will resolve recursive queries. you'll have to add both inside the "options { ... };" part of your named.

Re: bind9 prevents external access

2007-03-21 Thread Oliver Jato
Am Mittwoch, 21. März 2007 19:48 schrieb Justin Hartman: > On 3/21/07, Oliver Jato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > you'll probably have to tell bind to use recursion for fetching adresses > > which are not in his authority. in options, set "allow-recursion { > > 127.0.0.1; };". if you want others on

Re: bind9 prevents external access

2007-03-21 Thread Justin Hartman
On 3/21/07, Oliver Jato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: you'll probably have to tell bind to use recursion for fetching adresses which are not in his authority. in options, set "allow-recursion { 127.0.0.1; };". if you want others on your network to use your bind, too, also add "192.168.1/24;", for ex

Re: bind9 prevents external access

2007-03-21 Thread Oliver Jato
Am Mittwoch, 21. März 2007 19:10 schrieb Justin Hartman: > Very strange problem which I'm sure is pretty easy to fix - if you > know how. I installed bind9 with lsb-base on a Debian Etch system. The > problem is that as soon as bind9 is installed I can no longer ping or > access external sites from