Am 08.02.2013 um 20:09 schrieb Ed Morrison <edward.morrison at gmail.com>: > For whatever reason I can not get dns caching to work on any of my > centos boxes. Running Centos 5 and 6. Any thoughts on why these will > not run? The services start fine but when telling to perform a dig > using itself as the resolver the queries fail (See below). > > Any help would be appreciated. > ... > [root at qmail ~]# dig mx teichert.com @127.0.0.1 > ; <<>> DiG 9.3.6-P1-RedHat-9.3.6-20.P1.el5_8.6 <<>> mx teichert.com > @127.0.0.1 > ;; global options: printcmd > ;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached how does your named.conf looks like? is there some firewall filtering outgoing dns request? -- LF