I had setup two BIND9 servers on ubuntu to service all VPN connected users. They were both linked just fine. I managed BIND via webmin installed.<\/p>\n
A linux user and a Mac user were connecting to the VPN and then finding they could no longer connect to any web sites outside of the DNS domain.<\/p>\n
nslookup google.com<\/code>
\n;; Got recursion not available from 10.10.5.60, trying next server
\nServer: 10.10.5.61
\nAddress: 10.10.5.61#53
\n** server can’t find google.com: NXDOMAIN<\/p><\/blockquote>\nWell that’s no good. First server isn’t allowing recursive connections and the second one is not forwarding properly. I checked webmin and saw in the forwarding and transfers section that I had, indeed, already added 8.8.8.8, 8.8.4.4, 4.2.2.2, and 10.10.5.70 (internal DNS). So why was it not working?<\/p>\n
Fired up putty and SSH’d in
\nnano \/etc\/bind\/named.conf.options<\/code>
\nUnder the options { area add the following:
\nallow-query { any; };<\/code>
\nallow-recursion { any; };<\/code>
\nSave and quit<\/p>\nReload Bind
\n\/etc\/init.d\/bind9 reload<\/code><\/p>\nProfit<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I had setup two BIND9 servers on ubuntu to service all VPN connected users. They were both linked just fine. I managed BIND via webmin installed. A linux user and a Mac user were connecting to the VPN and then finding they could no longer connect to any web sites outside of the DNS domain. … Continue reading Ubuntu BIND Webmin NXDOMAIN<\/span>