Name server only looks up local domains?

[thelar222]

Hi,

I'm having trouble with my dedicated server (RH9 running BIND 9.2.1).

Any attempt to lookup a remote domain from the server fails:
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[root@ns root]# nslookup -sil microsoft.com
Server: 127.0.0.1
Address: 127.0.0.1#53

Non-authoritative answer:
*** Can't find microsoft.com: No answer
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Yet any lookup of local domains are fine:
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[root@ns root]# nslookup -sil valeit.com
Server: 127.0.0.1
Address: 127.0.0.1#53

Name: valeit.com
Address: 217.199.172.103
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It is definately a BIND problem because when I kill the named process domain lookups work fine.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Many thanks
Kev

 

[raztaboule]

what does your resolv.conf looks like ?
have you set a forwarders in your named.conf ?

 

[thelar222]

raz,

Looks like it's sorted. I had an 'allow-recursion' directive set, with some IP addresses there when I should have just had 'recursion yes'.

All working now though! Thanks for you reply.

Kev