caching server don't work

[Shantanu Mahajan]

+-- Eduardo Viruena Silva [freebsd] [20-05-03 01:43 -0500]:
| On Mon, 19 May 2003, pat bey wrote:
| 
| > Is there anyone who can help me.  I tried everywhere  I running FBSD4.6
| > BIND 8.3.2  and I follow the handbook on running namedb in a sandbox.
| >
| > Before I try to install namedb. I could ping my router, nic, and
| > google.ca with 0 packet loss.
| >
| > After installing namedb I now can't ping
| > anywhere but my nic.  dig google.ca gives me a server failed message
| >
| 
| You mean, by name, don't you?
| You can ping them using their IPs, can't you ?
| 
| Is named running?
| 
| 
| Sometimes, when configuring a DNS, we humans make mistakes.
| Are you absolutely sure your DNS tables are correctly written?
| To verify everything is alright, you can do:
| 
| 	# killall -HUP named
| 	# tail /var/log/messages
| 
| you must see something like this:
| 
| ----
| May 20 00:36:43 Isabeau named[30684]: reloading nameserver
| May 20 00:36:43 Isabeau named[30684]: Ready to answer queries.
| ----
| 
| Isabeau is the name of my DNS.
| 
| 
| Hope it helps.
| 
| 
| 	Eduardo.
| 
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	# mv /etc/resolv.conf /etc/resolv.conf.bak

	and try again

	Regards,
	Shantanu

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