Plesk 9 VPS - Doesn't reply to NameServer requests (nslookup, etc)

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Published on 2011-01-12T11:34:22Z Indexed on 2011/01/12 11:55 UTC
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Hi,

I'm trying to troubleshoot a problem with a new VPS i'm setting up.

The VPS is running Plesk 9 on a CentOS 5 system.

Everything works fine, except it doesn't serve dns requests.

If I try something like

nslookup [somedomain.com] the.ser.ver.ip

to test a DNS query, i get the following error

;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached

I can't telnet to it on port 42 either..

I'm guessing something is blocking the requests..

firewall maybe? the plesk firewall module is installed and the nameservers entry is green.

Any other way I can check what's blocking it on the server?

Any help/tip greatly appreciated.

Note: http works, i can telnet to the server on port 80 and i can also ping the server

Thanks

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