[CentOS] Re: centos 4.4 dns problem -

Bob Goodwin bobgoodwin at wildblue.net
Wed Mar 21 00:05:20 UTC 2007


Ty R. McMichael wrote:
> Check your named.conf file for the rndc.key entry.  Is the path correct?
> Did you generate one or use the already built one?
>
>   

That must be the problem.

/etc/resolv.conf  has one line -

nameserver 12.189.32.61

I don't know how to get the key?

I initially set this up with system-config-network and assumed 
everything would just work?

Did I do the wrong thing?

Bob
> On Tue, 2007-03-20 at 19:51 -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote:
>   
>> Les Mikesell wrote:
>>     
>>> Scott Silva wrote:
>>>       
>>>> Bob Goodwin spake the following on 3/20/2007 3:22 PM:
>>>>         
>>>>> I've just installed Centos 4.4 on a computer, replacing FC6, and the
>>>>> first thing I find is that DNS does not work no matter what I have in
>>>>> /etc/resolv.conf.  It should at least work with my ISP's assigned 
>>>>> server
>>>>> but doesn't.  Numerical URL's work via the browser and ping.  Is there
>>>>> something else I need to attend to?
>>>>>
>>>>> I hope this is the right list for such questions.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks.
>>>>>
>>>>> Bob Goodwin
>>>>>           
>>>> Named isn't started by default, even if you install caching-nameserver.
>>>>         
>>> Named doesn't need to be running if your /etc/resolv.conf points 
>>> elsewhere.  Do you have firewalls blocking port 53?
>>>
>>> 'dig' is usually a reasonable diagnostic tool.
>>>
>>>       
>> I tried disabling the firewall, still nothing.
>>
>> dig just reports "connection timed out; no servers could be reached"
>>
>> Bob




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