External DNS Queries Refused

[atjensen11]

I have been running a DNS server on my internal LAN for some time now and it has been performing well.

After following many excellent tutorials on this site, I now have a server capable of hosting websites with Apache Virtual Hosts, among other features.

For the last year, I have been using an external DNS service for servicing the DNS requests for those websites. I know am attempting to bring that DNS service in house onto my existing DNS server.

I have configured the DNS server to use views; one external and one internal. (As a side note, the server was also using views but only the internal view existed for the last year. So all I am doing is building out the external view.)

When I try an nslookup command from a Windows PC command line using my DNS server, the query is always refused.

All necessary ports are open and forwarded correctly between the gateway firewall and the server.

Any suggestions?

[topdog]

Lets see the named.conf file

[atjensen11]

After some extended searching on Google, I found the line that was causing the problem. It was in my named.conf.local file.

Here is the file as it was before I made the change:


view external chaos {
match-clients { !lan_hosts; any; };
recursion no;
additional-from-auth no;
additional-from-cache no;
zone "ninjamonkeysix.com" {
type master;
file "/etc/bind/external/ninjamonkeysix.com.hosts";
};
};


I was getting an error that contained the clue "IN" != zone "CH".

I found that if removed the chaos word from my external zone, I no longer received the errors and my external DNS queries were no answered. So my block now looks like:


view external {
match-clients { !lan_hosts; any; };
recursion no;
additional-from-auth no;
additional-from-cache no;
zone "ninjamonkeysix.com" {
type master;
file "/etc/bind/external/ninjamonkeysix.com.hosts";
};
};


Although it is working, it now leaves me wondering why a person would use this chaos thing. I have read a little bit about how to set it up, but I haven't found any simple description of the benefits or drawbacks.