What is --- WRONG --- with my network?

[Alex de Kruijff]

On Sat, May 07, 2005 at 05:56:16AM -0500, Fafa Hafiz Krantz wrote:
> 
> Hello Alex (and Jan)!
> 
> > It could be that type slave files need to go in the subdirectory slave
> > and type master files need to go in the subdirectory master.
> 
> named doesn't give me any errors.
> As I previously stated, my setup has been running flawlessly for months.

Read the manual and run it with debug information.

> > Check you /var/log/messages for errors about this.
> 
> That what I find strange too.
> /var/log/messages doesn't contain anything but the snort initialization!
> And /var/named/var/log is totally empty.
> 
> Here is my security run though. Maybe PF is denying something by default?

No. A firewall can stop DNS request from passing though, but it doesn't
stop named from running.

> Even though I removed it from rc.conf at one time, and problems still persisted,
> there might have been something evil lurking in the back. I've had this problem
> with IPFW, where I'd have to compile an option into my kernel for it not to
> block everything.

I think you just have configuration problem.

-- 
Alex