dns problem

[Darrell Shandrow]

Hi Scott,

You can ping me.  Ping borg.shandrow.com, or the IP address 206.124.184.77.

Check your /etc/named.conf carefully.  Look for the zone file that is named
just ".".  Make sure that really does point to a valid root servers hints
file...

----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott Howell" <showell at lrxms.net>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Monday, October 14, 2002 3:25 AM
Subject: Re: dns problem


> Greg,
>
> That very well could be the problem. I am running bind 8.something on my
> old box and bind 9 on the new box. I simply used the same configuration
> file with a few minor changes to paths etc. Being that I can't contact
> any root servers, that probably would indicate there being some problem
> with the configuration.
> What is interesting is that at one point it seem to work, but to be
> honest I haven't absolutely any clue what would have broken in such
> short order. I think what compounds the problem is I can't think of
> anything to ping beyond my own network just to be sure my packets are
> flowing as they should be. Yes, I can use netwatch, but it tends to be a
> bit to verbose just to get some simple info. I used to be able to ping
> the ISP's dns server, but guess they decided to block pings now.<grin>
>
> Tnx will have to keep hacking this problem.
>
>
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