[CentOS] BIND issues, server not responding

[Robert Moskowitz]

Ray Leventhal wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> My CentOS 5 nameserver is seemingly unable to be queried by anything but
> itself (localhost, 127.0.0.1).  From any other machine, including the
> primary which *does* transfer zone files correctly to this machine
> (which is secondary), requests time out.
>
> I've put SELinux into permissive mode, so I don't think that's an issue.
>
> /var/named/chroot/etc/named.conf begins thus:
> =====================================
> options {
>   directory "/var/named/slaves";
>   listen-on { localhost; 127.0.0.1; 64.135.16.15; };
> };
> =====================================
>   
Are you using views? If you only have a 'localhost' view (kind how 
namecacheserver is set up), then no one else can query.

Do you have match-clients and match-destinations set up? I think the 
default for these are 'any', but if you have them and they are wrong?

> I've placed a copy of resolv.conf in /etc/ as well as
> /var/named/chroot/etc as a result of seeing this message in
> /var/log/messages (the file in /etc/ had been a symlink to the file in
> the chrooted path before this)
>
> Aug 22 13:10:06 sunspot restorecond: Will not restore a file with more
> than one hard link (/etc/resolv.conf) No such file or directory
>
> /etc/init.d/named status returns:
>
> [root at sunspot etc]# /etc/init.d/named status
> number of zones: 172
> debug level: 0
> xfers running: 0
> xfers deferred: 0
> soa queries in progress: 0
> query logging is OFF
> recursive clients: 0/1000
> tcp clients: 0/100
> server is up and running
>
> So....while I'm sure it's simple, I'm stumped.
>
> Any help will be greatly appreciated.
>
> Kind regards,
> ~Ray
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