I inserted your suggestion and the connection is still refused. I also tried to telnet to the port and the telnet gets refused. Thanks James On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 9:47 PM, Munir Nassar <tclug at beitsahour.net> wrote: > James wrote: > > Howdy, > > > > I have Fedora 9 installed and would like to use it as the DNS system in > > the house. > > > > The setup is as follows > > > > options { > > listen-on port 53 { 127.0.0.1 <http://127.0.0.1>; }; > > listen-on-v6 port 53 { ::1; }; > > directory "/var/named"; > > dump-file "/var/named/data/cache_dump.db"; > > statistics-file "/var/named/data/named_stats.txt"; > > memstatistics-file "/var/named/data/named_mem_stats.txt"; > > allow-query { localhost; }; > > > this tells it to only allow localhost to use this server as a resolver, > add your subnet in: > allow-query { > localhost; > 10.0.0.0/24; > }; > > or define an acl for your local net > > acl localnet { > 10.0.0.0/24; > }; > > and then you can use localnet in the allow-query list > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20080702/066aeb85/attachment.htm