BIND9 stopped working...

[Daniel J. Luke]

On Apr 8, 2007, at 8:32 PM, Alex Kac wrote:

> So this is an OS X Server issue I'm sure...but let me see if I can  
> get some experienced help on this.
>
> I'm using Bind9.4 from Macports. When the server was home as I was  
> setting it up, BIND9 was the first thing I setup. It was working  
> perfectly throughout the time I used it. I know because, well, it  
> just worked :)
>
> Then I moved the server to its proper location and gave it a public  
> IP. I ran the changeip script that OS X server requires (stupid  
> thing that is). Now BIND9 runs, but does not work. I cannot get it  
> to respond to anything.
>
> Here is the only thing I see in the logs:
>
> Apr  8 19:25:29 localhost named[82]: starting BIND 9.4.0
> Apr  8 19:25:29 localhost named[82]: command channel listening on  
> 127.0.0.1#953
> Apr  8 19:25:30 localhost named[82]: running
>
> but doing an NSLookup to the server simply does not work.
> wisops@[/opt/local/apache2/conf/vhosts]: nslookup
> > server webis.net
> Default server: webis.net
> Address: 66.118.228.13#53
> > ironcoffee.com
>
> ;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached
> > > webis.net
>
>
> So - any ideas?

Do you have listen-on or allow-query options set in your named.conf  
file?

You probably just have to update the address from the old IP to the  
new one in there.

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