Can anybody think of some reasons why bind9 will not resolve anything, and won't even forward requests?

Question

Okay, I made me one of them there "perfect servers" using Ubuntu 7.10 and I need to have the DNS working on the thing.
Now, my bind is chrooted to /var/lib/named.
I have my nodes null and random up in there.
I have all the /etc/default/bind9 file configured to point to the jail.
I have the log files working.
I have resolv.conf.options set to point to a known working name server.
I HAVE NO ZONES except the nulls,
In short the thing would appear to be configured right.
There is little or nothing to get in the way.


But it DOES NOT RESOLVE. Not no how not no way.

Anybody out there think they might know what's up? Port 53 seems to be passing traffic just fine,...

I am open to wild ideas here.

One think to help along the way... The thing was okay, when it lived at a different IP address, but now that it is where it is supposed to be, nada.

Any latent configuration files that might giving me lip?

Answer 1

try this http://www.ubuntugeek.com/dns-server-setup-using-bind-in-ubuntu.html