Solved: I broke forwarding nameservice.

[Steven W. Orr]

On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, Steven W. Orr wrote:

=>I had set this up in the past and now it's broke and I can't for the life 
=>of me remember how I did it or how to fix it.
=>
=>I have master which is my firewall and NAT server (and my personal 
=>workstation). And I have my wife's computer (uranus) which had her 
=>resolv.conf pointing to master. Everything was working fine. Now it 
=>doesn't. Obviously I must have done something but I can't figure out what. 
=>Everything works except for nameservice. As a bandaid, I set her 
=>resolv.conf to be the same as mine so they both now point to my ISPs 
=>nameservers.
=>
=>What is supposed to happen so that I am a forwarding nameserver?
=>
=>Thanks guys.
Turns out that the named died. All is well. Thanks guys.

Actually, I feel pretty secure with my setup the way it is. People bounce 
right off of it. I'm running apache, sendmail and ssh. It seems pretty 
well covered and I have what I think is an above average iptables 
firewall.

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