Hi all, I'm having some problems with the nameserver on a webserver I am setting up at a company I work for. I'm running bind from potato, and the machines on the internal network can use my server as a name server, no problems, but when I try and set my machine up at home to query this server to test it, I get connection timed out, no servers found.
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. I'd like to be sure the nameserver is working before I get all our domains redelegated. Can anyone tell me if a nameserver won't work if it is not being pointed to by something outside? It has it's own static IP, but I'm not sure is a nameserver needs to be "declared" or registered it some way. Other than that, can anyone tell me how to track down the problem? I can't use traceroute as I normally would because there is no problem seeing and connecting to the machine normally and I can't find any helpful options to dig or nslookup. Thanks, Bec
