Re: nameserver problems

[Rebecca Dridan <rdrid@ormond.unimelb.edu.au>]

On Mon, Nov 05, 2001 at 12:25:15AM +0100, j wrote:
> On Sunday 04 November 2001 23:33, Rebecca Dridan wrote:
> 
> > I can connect using ssh to the machine from outside, when I nmap it, it
> > says port 53 is open
> 
> did you run the portscan from the Internet ?
> try ... nmap -p 53 -sU -P0

I get 

Port       State       Service
53/udp     open        domain                  


> 
> Are there any errors in /var/log/daemon.log when starting bind ?
> 
Nothing unusual

Is it possible that bind is only listening on one interface?  All internal
machines connect through eth1 which has an internal IP, 192.168.0.1.  External
machines that try to use the external IP are failing.


Thanks for your help

Bec


> > not sure is a nameserver needs to be "declared" or registered it some way.
> 
> It will work without, but every decent registrar offers automatic 
> registration of DNS servers with internic. atleast dotster does.
> 
> -- 
> BOFH excuse #419:
> 
> Repeated reboots of the system failed to solve problem
> 
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