I am now running 2.022 however I started using ASL at 2.016. I've never had a problem using the dns proxy on the firewall box, and just setting up my internal boxes to point to the internal ip of the firewall box.
However somewhere among the up2dates my dns just stopped working. I would get this error when looking up hostnames on the internal boxes:
connection timed out; no servers could be reached.
I looked further into the issue and went onto the firewall box and noticed that /usr/sbin/named was running, however there is no /usr/sbin/named file, only /var/chroot-bind/usr/sbin/named (does this have to do with the chroot environment?).
so i tryed restarting the dns proxy via webadmin a couple times to no avail. it is set to listen on my internal interface and i know the dns servers that it is forwarding through are up and working b/c I have been using those directly.
So what could be wrong here? also what advantages does using a forwarding named have? does it cache requests to increase the speed of frequent requests(like squid does for web pages?).
Someone please fill me in on what to do next. Thanks.
-John
After writing this I looked a little more into it and noticed that it has listen on 127.0.0.1 in the conf, is this right? should it be my internal address insteead (192.168.0.1)? i tried changing it in the conf manually however everytime it is restarted it sets it back to just 127.0.0.1, what do your peoples named.conf's say that are working? Thanks again.
[ 23 February 2002: Message edited by: John Scimone ]
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