Re: bind9 prevents external access

[Oliver Jato <oliver.jato@gmx.de>]

Am Mittwoch, 21. März 2007 19:10 schrieb Justin Hartman:
> Very strange problem which I'm sure is pretty easy to fix - if you
> know how. I installed bind9 with lsb-base on a Debian Etch system. The
> problem is that as soon as bind9 is installed I can no longer ping or
> access external sites from the bind9 server.
>
> For example I can't ping google.com or run apt-get commands because it
> simply timesout. As soon as bind9 is "turned off" I regain full access
> to run software updates on the server etc.
>
> Somewhere, somehow bind9 is blocking access and it's driving me mad -
> any help appreciated.

hi,

you'll probably have to tell bind to use recursion for fetching adresses which 
are not in his authority. in options, set "allow-recursion { 127.0.0.1; };". 
if you want others on your network to use your bind, too, also 
add "192.168.1/24;", for example.

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Oliver

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