BIND9 server not responding to external queries

Posted by Twitchy on Ask Ubuntu See other posts from Ask Ubuntu or by Twitchy
Published on 2012-10-27T04:21:11Z Indexed on 2012/10/27 5:17 UTC
Read the original article Hit count: 509

Filed under:

12.04

|

dns

|

bind

I have set up a BIND server on my dedicated box which I want to host a nameserver for my domain on.

When I use dig @202.169.196.59 nzserver.co.nz locally on the server I get the following response...

; <<>> DiG 9.8.1-P1 <<>> @202.169.196.59 nzserver.co.nz
; (1 server found)
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 43773
;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 2

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;nzserver.co.nz.                        IN      A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
nzserver.co.nz.         3600    IN      A       202.169.196.59

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
nzserver.co.nz.         3600    IN      NS      ns2.nzserver.co.nz.
nzserver.co.nz.         3600    IN      NS      ns1.nzserver.co.nz.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
ns1.nzserver.co.nz.     3600    IN      A       202.169.196.59
ns2.nzserver.co.nz.     3600    IN      A       202.169.196.59

;; Query time: 0 msec
;; SERVER: 202.169.196.59#53(202.169.196.59)
;; WHEN: Sat Oct 27 15:40:45 2012
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 116

Which is good, and is the output I want. But when simply using dig nzserver.co.nz I get...

; <<>> DiG 9.8.1-P1 <<>> nzserver.co.nz
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: SERVFAIL, id: 16970
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;nzserver.co.nz.                        IN      A

;; Query time: 308 msec
;; SERVER: 202.169.192.61#53(202.169.192.61)
;; WHEN: Sat Oct 27 17:09:12 2012
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 32

And if I use dig @202.169.196.59 nzserver.co.nz on another linux machine I get...

; <<>> DiG 9.7.3 <<>> @202.169.196.59 nzserver.co.nz
; (1 server found)
;; global options: +cmd
;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached

Am I doing something wrong here? Port 53 is definitely open.

/etc/bind/named.conf.options

options {
        directory "/var/cache/bind";

        forwarders {
                202.169.192.61;
                202.169.206.10;
        };

        listen-on {
                202.169.196.59;
        };
};

/etc/bind/named.conf.local

zone "nzserver.co.nz" {
        type master;
        file "/etc/bind/nzserver.co.nz.zone";
};

/etc/bind/nzserver.co.nz.zone

; BIND db file for nzserver.co.nz

$ORIGIN nzserver.co.nz.

@       IN      SOA     ns1.nzserver.co.nz. mr.steven.french.gmail.com. (
2012102606
28800
7200
864000
3600 )

        NS      ns1.nzserver.co.nz.
        NS      ns2.nzserver.co.nz.
        MX      10 mail.nzserver.co.nz.

@       IN      A       202.169.196.59
*       IN      A       202.169.196.59
ns1     IN      A       202.169.196.59
ns2     IN      A       202.169.196.59
www     IN      A       202.169.196.59
mail    IN      A       202.169.196.59

Developer IT