Yes - I have verified that the root servers are there and the config does
point to them correctly.

Scott


On Sat, Aug 6, 2011 at 8:47 PM, Helmut Fritz <[email protected]> wrote:

> Just a quick thought : Is this a new install of BIND? Do you have your root
> zones configured? If not, your server will not know where to go for zones it
> does not have set up locally.  ****
>
> ** **
>
> *From:* Scott Hughes [mailto:[email protected]]
> *Sent:* Saturday, August 06, 2011 2:11 PM
> *To:* [email protected]
> *Subject:* [qmailtoaster] OT: Bind9 DNS question****
>
> ** **
>
> For some weird reason my DNS (not on qmail) is not forwarding requests for
> zones that aren't in it's zone files (like google.com).  If I 'dig' one of
> my zones, I get all the correct information.  If I 'dig' something like
> www.google.com I get nothing.  Here are the two files that I think control
> this:****
>
> ** **
>
> # cat resolv.conf****
>
> search renshawauto.org****
>
> nameserver 66.255.244.213****
>
> nameserver 127.0.0.1****
>
> ** **
>
> NOTE: Both of these IPs are the same interface.  I used to just have the
> 127.0.0.1 and nothing else, so I tried the live IP to see if that would help
> ****
>
> ** **
>
> ** **
>
> ** **
>
> # cat named.conf****
>
> //****
>
> // named.conf****
>
> //****
>
> // Provided by Red Hat bind package to configure the ISC BIND named(8) DNS
> ****
>
> // server as a caching only nameserver (as a localhost DNS resolver only).
> ****
>
> //****
>
> // See /usr/share/doc/bind*/sample/ for example named configuration files.
> ****
>
> //****
>
> options {****
>
>         listen-on port 53 { 127.0.0.1; };****
>
>         listen-on port 53 { 66.255.244.213; };****
>
> #       listen-on-v6 port 53 { ::1; };****
>
>         allow-query { 127.0.0.1; 66.255.244.213; };****
>
>         allow-recursion { 127.0.0.1; 66.255.244.213; };****
>
>         directory       "/var/named/chroot/var/named";****
>
>         forward first;****
>
>         forwarders { 8.8.8.8; 8.8.4.4; };****
>
>         dump-file       "/var/named/chroot/var/named/data/cache_dump.db";*
> ***
>
>         statistics-file "/var/named/chroot/var/named/data/named_stats.txt";
> ****
>
>         memstatistics-file
> "/var/named/chroot/var/named/data/named_mem_stats.txt";****
>
> //        allow-query     { 127.0.0.1; 66.255.244.213; localhost; };****
>
>         recursion no;****
>
>         transfers-out 100;****
>
> };****
>
> ** **
>
> logging {****
>
>         channel default_debug {****
>
>                 file "data/named.run";****
>
>                 severity dynamic;****
>
>         };****
>
> };****
>
> zone "." IN {****
>
>         type hint;****
>
>         file "/var/named/chroot/var/named/named.root";****
>
> };****
>
> include "/var/named/chroot/etc/named.conf.local";****
>
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>
> ** **
>
> Any ideas?  I've been searching on Google for HOURS on this one. I even
> replaced my named.root file with the latest from Internic, No Joy!  If I put
> an outside DNS server into the resolv.conf then it will work probably, but
> the forwarders in the named.conf should do this!****
>
> ** **
>
> Thanks,****
>
> Scott****
>
> ** **
>

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