Hi all ! I followed the perfect lenny server tutorial on a clean server for test purposes. Everything works fine, except DNS. I've set up DNS correctly in the ISPConfig interface. After 24 hours, I did a DNS transversal check with dnsstuff.com & found out that records are straight on there side, everything pointing as it should, but my server doesn't respond... Ouch ! I ssh'd to my server , did an /etc/init.d/mydns restart. Nothing special, no alerts.. just restart. ISPCOnfig says MyDNS is running Nestat -tap however doesn't see mydns running... Whazzup? I also checked out my firewall rules, the correct ports are open. BTW, I did an apt-get remove bind9, hoping to keep the server from getting confused on who's doing the DNS stuff onbord. However, in ISPCOnfig3 panel I see this : HUH ??? Bind ??? Now I'm lost... Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Ok, got an answer for this one. Debian Lenny is delivered with bind pre-installed & running The apt-get remove bind9 that I did was not correct (does't remove bind & less stop the running service) To correctly remove bind do this Code: apt-get purge bind9 update-rc.d bind9 remove apt-get remove bind9 IS NOT SUFFICIENT /INCORRECT Use code above. A reboot -n will restart server & get things straight. There's probably a more graceful way to restart all services, but the reboot did the trick for me.
