I have been trying to get BIND to work on my Fedora 17 system to use as my primary DNS server. I was using dig with the IP address of that system to test and could not get it working. By fluke, I discovered that if I used localhost rather than the specific IP address of that machine (192.168.0.74), then everything worked. So for example, dig @localhost ibm.com works but dig @192.168.0.74 ibm.com does not work. I'm hoping someone can tell me how to fix this. Thanks in advance.
ok --- figured this out --- in case anyone else runs into this issue, here's what you need to do 1) Modify the config file (/etc/named.conf) and insert the explicit IP address of your server after the localhost address in the listen-on option. E.g. listen-on port 53 { 127.0.0.1; 192.168.0.74; } 2) Add your network to the allow-query option, E.g. allow-query { localhost; 192.168.0.0/24} That last item allows any machine in your class-C subnet to query the DNS
