Bind still not allowing local network

[William Murray]

On Sat, 2007-06-23 at 07:32 -0400, fedora-list-request at redhat.com wrote:
> 
>   Hello there,
>       I am still unable to run a DNS service from F7 for my home
> network.
> Since my last post I have found the listen-on option, which  seems to
> allow bind/named
> to respond to queries of the type:
>     host XXXXX 168.254.0.1
>    when issued from the server. But not when issued from somewhere
> else on the network.
> I just get " connection timed out; no servers could be reached"
>    Any clues PLEASE?
>     Bill 

  Steve and Tim; thank you both.

   Steve was correct - the firewall had decided to block DNS lookup
access. So it was in fact broken in two different ways. Very good.
  Ah well, you live and learn.
         Thanks,
        Bill