[CentOS] named is up but does not respond to queries

Wed Aug 24 19:01:22 UTC 2005
Arun K. Khan <knura at yahoo.com>

On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 11:45 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:

> It looks like it can't reach the root servers.  It has a private
> address  - could you have a problem with your NAT gateway to the
> internet?   How about your local firewalling on 53/udp to let
> the responses back?

No it is neither a NAT gateway nor a firewall problem. In fact firewall
is turned off on this box and I can fire up named on my SuSE workstation
and it works fine.  With the CentOS server,  I don't get any response
for queries on my 'local' zone for which it is the SOA.  

Interestingly, 53/udp does not show up in 'netstat -n -l -t -u -p ' or
the nmap scan when this situation occurs.  This could well be the
problem.
 
-- 
Arun Khan
Linux is like a wigwam - no gates, no windows, apache inside