[CentOS] BIND issues, server not responding

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.
>   
Are you running the firewall and have DNS allowed?

This is a separate issue from SELinux.
> /var/named/chroot/etc/named.conf begins thus:
> =====================================
> options {
>   directory "/var/named/slaves";
>   listen-on { localhost; 127.0.0.1; 64.135.16.15; };
> };
> =====================================
>   
Do a netstat -na|grep 53

Lets be really sure.