[SunHELP] Bind 9.2.3

[Lara Matthews]

Hi Eric

Eric LeBlanc wrote:

> On Tue, 25 May 2004, Lara Matthews wrote:
> 
> 
>>; <<>> DiG 8.3 <<>> mailhost
>>;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch
>>;; res_nsend to server default -- 213.128.229.177: Connection timed out
>>
>>nslookup does not want to seem to play at all:
>>
>># nslookup mailhost
>>*** Can't find server name for address 213.128.229.177: No response from
>>server
>>*** Default servers are not available
>>
>># nslookup mailhost.accesscomputing.co.uk
>>*** Can't find server name for address 213.128.229.177: No response from
>>server
>>*** Default servers are not available
>>
>>Any suggestions why a fully qualified name would work in dig but not an
>>unqualified name?
>>
> 
> 
> 
> Seems that the DNS server is down... have you checked if named is running?
> have you checked some errors msg from DNS server in
> /var/log/messages or /var/adm/syslog ?
> 
> 

If I do a ps -ef | grep for named I get


^C# ps -ef | grep named
     root   146     1  0 15:02:08 ?        0:00 /usr/local/sbin/named
     root   318   299  0 15:02:43 console  0:00 grep named

and a dig with the fully qualified name works

# dig mailhost

; <<>> DiG 8.3 <<>> mailhost
;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch
;; res_nsend to server default -- 213.128.229.177: Connection timed out
# dig mailhost.accesscomputing.co.uk

; <<>> DiG 8.3 <<>> mailhost.accesscomputing.co.uk
;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch
;; got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: SERVFAIL, id: 2
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; QUERY SECTION:
;;      mailhost.accesscomputing.co.uk, type = A, class = IN

;; Total query time: 2 msec
;; FROM: ns to SERVER: default -- 213.128.229.177
;; WHEN: Tue May 25 15:03:39 2004
;; MSG SIZE  sent: 48  rcvd: 48

so something must be working, it just isn't working properly.

Can I check the port is alive?  netstat -a | grep for 53 it gives me this:

# netstat -a | grep 53
localhost.953              *.*                0      0 49152      0 LISTEN

grep /var/adm/messages give me this:

May 25 15:02:08 ns named[146]: [ID 873579 daemon.notice] starting BIND 9.2.3
May 25 15:02:08 ns named[146]: [ID 873579 daemon.notice] command channel 
listening on 127.0.0.1#953
May 25 15:02:08 ns named[146]: [ID 873579 daemon.notice] couldn't add 
command channel ::1#953: address not available
May 25 15:02:09 ns named[146]: [ID 873579 daemon.error] dns_master_load: 
accesscomputing.co.uk:26: ns.accesscomputing.co.uk: CNAME and other data
May 25 15:02:09 ns named[146]: [ID 873579 daemon.error] zone 
accesscomputing.co.uk/IN: loading master file accesscomputing.co.uk: 
CNAME and other data

Very confused.

Any help greatly appreciated.

Kind regards

Lara

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