Without knowing a bit more about how you access the Internet and what host
92.168.5.3 is (is it the RH server itself? another Linux host on the LAN?
something else?), I can only suggest possibilities, not solutions. They are:
1. Add a "forwarders" block to named.conf, one that lists the IP addresses
of your ISP's DNS servers. It will look something like this (except with
different numbers) --
forwarders
{
192.168.128.1;
192.168.128.10;
};
2. If you only need to do nameservice on the RH host itself, then add the
ISP's DNS servers to /etc/resolv.conf -- but this will only affect
resolution for the one host, not for others that use it as a nameserver.
3. Makr sure your BIND configuration has access to the list of root
nameservers for DNS. To do this, make sure named.conf has a "hints" entry
that looks something like this --
// prime the server with knowledge of the root servers
zone "."
{
type hint;
file "/etc/bind/db.root";
};
and make sure the file listed in the hint block has the needed info ... RH
probably provides this file (all BIND packages I know of do) but probalb y
not in the location I used in my example above.
At 06:42 PM 11/28/99 +0530, Gaurav Agarwal wrote:
>Hi all !
> I was setting up DNS on my machine running Red Hat Linux 6.0
>Actually, i wanted the DNS such that it would lookup and resolve only my
>domain name
>and resolve any other domains through the internet.
>My machine is not always connected to the internet.
>
>But now, after doing this, i am not able to resolve external domains ...
>eg ping my_machine works
>but not
>ping linux.com
>
>Please help me set it up correctly, as it does'nt even send the mails !
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