Re: DNS Problem: BIND on new NS Won't Respond

[Jon Dowland <jon-dowland@ncl.ac.uk>]

Alvin Oga wrote:

> On Mon, 4 Apr 2005, Jon Dowland wrote:
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> > Hal Vaughan wrote:
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> > They're defaults for a reason: make sure you don't do anything drastic, 
> > based on only one reply to your message!
> >    
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> so please do elaborate on what the purpose of those defaults are
> and why his dns servers is not working 
The purposes of the defaults are explained in the comments for the 
relevant files in /etc/bind. I cannot tell you what is wrong with his 
name resolution based on the information provided, however I know of 2-3 
working debian bind systems which retain these defaults.