BIND Refusing to Resolve for External Hosts

Matthew Seaman m.seaman at infracaninophile.co.uk
Sat Jul 3 19:53:28 UTC 2010


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On 03/07/2010 20:28:27, Chris Maness wrote:
> Including the line:
> 
> acl public-nets { 127.0.0.1; ::1; }
                                     ^
You need a semi-colon here __________|

> for testing resulted in a failure to launch with the following error code:
> 
> /etc/namedb/named.conf:23: unknown option 'acl'
> /etc/rc.d/named: ERROR: named-checkconf for $named_conf failed

Just defining the acl won't do a great deal on its own -- you need to
add it to an allow-recursion {}; or similar block.

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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