Bind still not allowing local network

Ed Gurski ed at gurski.com
Sat Jun 23 14:35:46 UTC 2007


On Sat, 2007-06-23 at 10:12 -0400, fedora-list-request at redhat.com wrote:
> S
> Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2007 21:09:11 +0930
> From: Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au>
> Subject: Re: Bind still not allowing local network
> To: For users of Fedora <fedora-list at redhat.com>
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> On Sat, 2007-06-23 at 12:31 +0100, Murray, WJ (Bill) 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
> 
Make sure that tcp and udp ports 53 are enabled on your firewall. This
will probably be your problem.

On the other hand, I'm sure you know that bind is chroot'ed in Fedora.
This the bind configuration files are not in /etc.

HTH
-- 
Ed Gurski <ed at gurski.com>




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