Can someone please help me with a really simple Bind issue. I am using Bind9 and I am hosting ibxsecurity.com ... If I ask 192.168.10.12 (Local Private IP) about ibxsecurity.com it will respond with my WAN IP (Which it should do) now if I ask my Wan IP about ibxsecurity.com it gives me DNS requested timed out. I do have the ports forwarded and it does not fail until I ask about the domain. PLEASE HELP!

Are you sure???

From my end, I do not get an answer from your DNS server.

Another possibility is your ISP could be blocking inbound DNS requests. Based on a lookup of your domain, the IP address referenced appears to be dynamic. ie. DHCP assigned.

If I do nslookup ibxsecurity.com

nslookup
> server 192.168.10.12
> ibxsecurity.com
> replies with my public IP

nslookup
> server 64.233.245.124
> ibxsecurity.com
> DNS request timed out

My ISP does not block dns request and I have a static IP. Sorry when you tried Bind needed restarted.

Well, also dnsreport gives timeout with your dns. So if your isp does not block port 53 tcp/udp, then perhaps your dns does not listen on the external interface (64.233.245.124) of ypu have a firewall that blocks that ports.

How do I make bind listen on the external interface?

By default named listens to all interfaces on port 53, unless you've changed the "listen-on" option in your named.conf or you have an acl to block external requests. So if you are sure it's not a firewall or your isp that blocks port 53 problem, take a look at named.conf for the "listen-on" and "acl" directives.

Thanks for all the help, but I do not have "listen-on" or "acl" in named.conf

options {
pid-file "/var/run/bind/run/named.pid";
directory "/etc/bind";
auth-nxdomain no;
/*
* If there is a firewall between you and nameservers you want
* to talk to, you might need to uncomment the query-source
* directive below. Previous versions of BIND always asked
* questions using port 53, but BIND 8.1 uses an unprivileged
* port by default.
*/
query-source address * port 53;
};

//
// a caching only nameserver config
//
zone "." {
type hint;
file "db.root";
};

zone "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa" {
type master;
file "db.local";
};

zone "245.233.64.in-addr.arpa" {
type master;
file "pri.245.233.64.in-addr.arpa";
};

zone "ibxsecurity.com" {
type master;
file "pri.ibxsecurity.com";
};



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Check if you have a firewall running that blocks incoming requests on port 53:
Check that your external interface is up and listening on port 53:
Re-check that your isp does not blocks you.

iptables -L
Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source destination

Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source destination

Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source destination




I use a router and have 53 tcp/udp routed to this computer.

ifconfig -a
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:E0:182:B1:3C
inet addr:192.168.10.12 Bcast:192.168.10.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::2e0:18ff:fed2:b13c/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:107270 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:204597 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:25480329 (24.2 MiB) TX bytes:40084259 (38.2 MiB)
Interrupt:177

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:162 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:162 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:15542 (15.1 KiB) TX bytes:15542 (15.1 KiB)

sit0 Link encap:IPv6-in-IPv4
NOARP MTU:1480 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)



Active Internet connections (servers and established)
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State PID/Program name
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:3306 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 3719/mysqld
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:81 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 4041/ispconfig_http
tcp 0 0 192.168.10.12:53 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 13885/named
tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:53 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 13885/named
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:21 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 4291/proftpd: (acce
tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:953 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 13885/named
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:25 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 4234/master
tcp6 0 0 :::993 :::* LISTEN 3593/couriertcpd
tcp6 0 0 :::995 :::* LISTEN 3628/couriertcpd
tcp6 0 0 :::110 :::* LISTEN 3608/couriertcpd
tcp6 0 0 :::143 :::* LISTEN 3568/couriertcpd
tcp6 0 0 :::80 :::* LISTEN 4142/apache2
tcp6 0 0 :::22 :::* LISTEN 3882/sshd
tcp6 0 0 ::1:953 :::* LISTEN 13885/named
tcp6 0 0 :::25 :::* LISTEN 4234/master
tcp6 0 0 :::443 :::* LISTEN 4142/apache2
tcp6 0 432 ::ffff:192.168.10.12:22 ::ffff:192.168.10.243:48343 ESTABLISHED14259/0
udp 0 0 0.0.0.0:53 0.0.0.0:* 13885/named
udp 0 0 192.168.10.12:53 0.0.0.0:* 13885/named
udp 0 0 127.0.0.1:53 0.0.0.0:* 13885/named
udp6 0 0 :::32787 :::* 13885/named

I also rechecked with ISPs NOC and they state the port is not blocked.

Then it's your router that is not forwarding requests cause I've ran nmap against your public IP and it founds all ports closed.

Accepted Traffice by the firewall
Jul 15 16:24:02 WAN 65.24.7.3:32776 192.168.10.12:53 UDP

If the computer is not accepting the traffic wouldn't it come up as being closed. So I think that is what is happening.