Re: Bind 9 named on RH 9 only listens to local machine?

[Bret Hughes <bhughes elevating com>]

On Sun, 2003-08-31 at 14:56, Benjamin J. Weiss wrote:
> All,
> 
> I'm setting up a name server for work.  I've gone into the
> redhat-config-bind tool, and I think I have all of the zones configured
> correctly.  I was able to add the service with chkconfig, and I was able to
> start the named service with /etc/init.d/named start.  I allowed port 53,
> both tcp and udp through the firewall, with the following two iptables
> rules:
> 
> -A RH-Lokkit-0-50-INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --dport 53 --syn -j ACCEPT
> -A RH-Lokkit-0-50-INPUT -p udp -m udp --sport 53 -j ACCEPT
> 
> and restarted iptables.
> 
> I still couldn't get anything from dig, so I tried a netstat -tap | grep
> named:
> 
> tcp        0      0 orion.osbi.state:domain *:*                     LISTEN
> 21389/named
> tcp        0      0 localhost:domain        *:*                     LISTEN
> 21389/named
> tcp        0      0 localhost:rndc          *:*                     LISTEN
> 21389/named
> 
> 
> Note that orion.osbi.state.ok.us is the name of the machine.  This seems to
> show that the named daemon is only listening to itself for dns queries,
> correct?
> 

Not sure about this. I believe that the external ip address is getting
resolved to the manchine name. Try:
netstat -tapn | grep named

it should shout the ipaddress of the interface

Nret