[ale] Can't connect to port 53

[Jim Lynch]

Hi, Mike,

Thanks.  I hate to admit it here 'cause I know general consensus here 
about webmin and gui's in general, but I was trying to generate a zone 
using webmin/dns.  It obviously didn't do what I thought it should.  As 
I said before I gotta do a bit more digging so I understand this stuff a 
bit better.  You're example helps a lot.  Thanks for that.

Jim.
On 01/17/2013 06:34 PM, Michael H. Warfield wrote:
> By default, BIND is only going to listen on localhost:
>
> IPv4:	127.0.0.1
> IPv6:	::1
>
> Try doing a "netstat -nta" | grep :53
>
> Then see what it says.
>
> If you want BIND to listen on the network in general, you'll have to set
> up the listen-on and listen-on-v6 options.  Make sure, if this is expose
> to the network, that you have RESTRICTED recursion (your local host
> and/or your local networks).
>
> Examples from one of my nameserver's /etc/named.conf file:
>
> ACL for my local networks and stuff for recursion: