DNS Reports showing major error on remote dns server

you likely wont see any errors on the server... it'll probably neve generate errors itself. But it sounds like TCP 53 is not open to that server, from the website that is doing the checking.

On the server in question you should be able to do a netstat and see if its active:
netstat -an|grep tcp|grep :53

tcp 0 0 xxx.xxx.xx.xxx:53 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN
tcp 0 0 xxx.xxx.xx.xxx:53 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN
tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:53 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN

And you should be able to telnet port 53 of that server and get a connection established (quite a non-useful connection, but a connection nonetheless). If you get a connection refused, then TCP 53 isn't active on that IP. If you dont get an established connection but instead it times out, a firewall somewhere is the culprit.

Mike

 

Yeah it should. I don't know if your Listen-On stanza only has 127.0.0.1 in iti, or if there is some other directive that is eluding me that may be in your named.conf and causing it not to listen.

If you want to post the first bunch of lines of your named.conf (and obscure your actual IPs if they are in there), we can tell you. We don't need any of the 'zone' lines that list the domains you are authoritative for.

Are you running CentOS 5.0 ro RHEL 5 (if there is such a best) - you know, the latest greatest redhat-based?

MIke