Re: nameserver problems SOLVED

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

Thanks for all your help people.  I eventually managed to get it working.  I
found I didn't have the reverse in-addr-arpa set up properly for the external
IP.

Thanks again

Bec


On Mon, Nov 05, 2001 at 03:41:20PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote:
> * Rebecca Dridan <rdrid@ormond.unimelb.edu.au> [2001.11.05 09:33:28+1100]:
> > I can connect using ssh to the machine from outside, when I nmap it, it says
> > port 53 is open and there is nothing in my firewall logs to say anything is
> > getting blocked.  My ISP assure me that they are not blocking port 53.
> 
> it's quite conceivable that your bind only allows queries from the
> internal net. would you send me your named.conf privately, possibly
> with the official IP of the server?
> 
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