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I'm trying to set up a home LAN with a Linux DNS server. However, for
reasons unknown, the DNS server refuses to function. Despite the output
below from /var/log/messages, it won't respond to requests, and nslookup
fails with the following error:

*** Can't find server name for address 127.0.0.1: No response from server

I think this might be because inet.conf doesn't have any lines telling it
what to do with requests on the domain port (53?), but I'm not sure what
these lines should be

help greatly appreciated

dave rodgman

/var/log/messages:

Sep 26 06:20:42 sod named[1813]: hint zone "" (IN) loaded (serial 0)
Sep 26 06:20:42 sod named[1813]: Zone "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa" (file
pz/127.0.0):
No default TTL set using SOA minimum instead
Sep 26 06:20:42 sod named[1813]: master zone "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa" (IN)
loaded
(serial 1)
Sep 26 06:20:42 sod named[1813]: listening on [127.0.0.1].53 (lo)
Sep 26 06:20:42 sod named[1813]: listening on [192.168.1.1].53 (eth0)
Sep 26 06:20:42 sod named[1813]: listening on [62.137.51.232].53 (ppp0)
Sep 26 06:20:42 sod named[1813]: Forwarding source address is [0.0.0.0].1031
Sep 26 06:20:42 sod named[1814]: Ready to answer queries.

Ignore this: I've got it fixed now. Turned out nothing was happening on the
loopback device, because my iptables setup was overly harsh on outgoing
packets (dropping by default). Doh.

dave