From: Rudi Ahlers <rudiahlers at gmail.com> > I'm setting up a DNS server on CentOS 5.2, but can't get it to listen > to the outside IP address for DNS queries. There's no firewall > installed yet. > > Here's the BIND config options: > > options { > /* make named use port 53 for the source of all queries, to allow > * firewalls to block all ports except 53: > */ > > query-source port 53; > > // Put files that named is allowed to write in the data/ directory: > directory "/var/named"; // the default > dump-file "data/cache_dump.db"; > statistics-file "data/named_stats.txt"; > /* memstatistics-file "data/named_mem_stats.txt"; */ > }; > > Yet, it only listes on 127.0.0.1 > > What am I missing? I think, you need to tell him on which IP to listen to... See 'listen-on' in named.conf man page. JD