Paul, Thanks for your reply. The symbolic links in /etc were already set up when I installed FC4 There were a number of strange things : First, a named.conf which worked with FC2 won't work with FC4 Bind thinks there is something wrong with the file 0.0.127.IN-ADDR.ARPA and wouldn't start. So I took the reference to 0.0.127.IN-ADDR.ARPA out of named.conf and it started OK. Bind functioned fine as a DNS server to the internet and accepted mail to my domain and routed it to the mail server OK But, within the local network, it is oblivious to any other machine. The command 'host' returned the message it wasn't aware of any other machines on the local network. Thanks Dave Harman On Mon, 2005-08-15 at 18:19 -0600, Dave Harman wrote:
Hi After configuring Bind, and starting it I found the following problem : There is no problem accessing outside sites, and mail comes into my domain from outside with no problem. But, the bind server cannot see anything inside. When I type the command 'host' and a machine in the local network, I get the reply name lookup failed. Personally, I;m not so convinced chroot is superior to non-chroot and I don't understand why subsequent releases have to be so complicated Anyway, does anyone have a idea what I can look at ?
Make sure that your chroot is set up properly, and that the configuration files /etc/named.conf and /etc/rndc.key are symlinks to their equivalents in the chroot. # ls -l /etc/named.conf /etc/rndc.* # ls -lR /var/named/chroot Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
