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

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.