Re: [Q] Setting up a primary DNS server for my domain name on a Debian box...

[Sudhakar Chandrasekharan <thaths@netscape.com>]

"Ralf G. R. Bergs" proclaimed:
> On Wed, 17 Nov 1999 15:37:03 -0800, Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote:
> >[Now I tried doing an nslookup from a remote machine]
> >datagram from [207.1.145.44].1392, fd 22, len 31
> >req: nlookup(www.aunet.org) id 54197 type=1 class=1
> >req: found 'www.aunet.org' as 'www.aunet.org' (cname=0)
> >req: nlookup(aunet.org) id 54197 type=1 class=1
> >req: found 'aunet.org' as 'aunet.org' (cname=1)
> >ns_req: answer -> [207.1.145.44].1392 fd=22 id=54197 size=145 rc=0
> >datagram from [207.1.145.44].1392, fd 22, len 31
> >req: nlookup(www.aunet.org) id 54197 type=1 class=1
> >req: found 'www.aunet.org' as 'www.aunet.org' (cname=0)
> >req: nlookup(aunet.org) id 54197 type=1 class=1
> >req: found 'aunet.org' as 'aunet.org' (cname=1)
> >ns_req: answer -> [207.1.145.44].1392 fd=22 id=54197 size=145 rc=0
> >
> >So....  What is happening?  Help would be greatly appreciated.
> From the above log it seems as if everything goes right (but I'm no bind
> expert.) I'm clueless why things don't work for you, sorry.

It turns out the firewall in front of my remote machine was blocking UDP
traffic.

Thaths
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