I just want to confirm that this is a "bug" before reporting it to Bugzilla. I started with the sample named.conf included in the distribution and found that I couldn't query my server from outside my LAN. I finally traced it down to the match expressions in the sample's external view. bind-9.3.3-9.0.1.el5 /usr/share/doc/bind-9.3.3/sample/etc/named.conf The view has these match settings: match-clients { !localnets; !localhost; }; match-destinations { !localnets; !localhost; }; Changing these to "any" allowed queries to get in. Is the ! syntax invalid for this version of BIND? I don't see anything in Buzilla that looks like this issue: <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/buglist.cgi?component=bind&order=bugs.bug_id>