From: David McWilliams (davidkmcw@yahoo.com)
Date: Thu Nov 06 2003 - 15:24:57 EST
First answer, spot on, gotta love this list. Missing a default route
--- "Graham, Chad" <chad.graham@cdi-es.com> wrote:
> David,
>
> It almost sounds like a routing problem. Did you make sure a default
> or static route exists for that machine to have external access? Did
> you
> ip the new build the same as the old? I only ask in case there is a
> firewall along the line performing NAT for the old address, or
> allowing
> DNS out by the old address/hostname.
>
> Just a thought
>
> Chad Graham
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David McWilliams [mailto:davidkmcw@yahoo.com]
> Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2003 12:57 PM
> To: sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org
> Subject: DNS server question
>
> I've been asked to have a look at a formerly sunctional DNS server as
> the admin is away on maternity leave. They had the root disk die on
> it
> and would like it up and running again. I have never touched DNS
> before, but here goes. The site has two, one works fine, resolving
> both
> internally and externally, the other only resolves internal names and
> times out on external. They have a old copy of the original HDD that
> I
> am selectively copying files back from.
>
> The /etc/named.conf file exist on both machines. Only the
> non-functional had a /etc/named.boot file...
>
> The /var/named directory exists and both have good looking named.ca,
> named.local, named.<domain>, db.cache & db.<domain> files...
>
> Are there and quick places to check, which file/ stanza instructs
> in.named to interrogate a ROOT server...
>
> Any pointers would be great,
>
> David
>
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