named won't resolv (outside) hosts

[Dsilence]

I've installed a new red hat 7.3 server with (all RPM) bind DNS, sendmail, httpd etc everything works fine except one BIG problem

The DNS (same machine) won't find hosts,
if I ping an outside (e.g. redhat) IP-address it works, but if I e.g. ping

http://www.redhat.com

nothing

If I ping something entered in /etc/hosts
it works.

I red somewhere that when DNS is installed and conffed it should automatic use DNS instead of (or both) /etc/hosts to resolve IP well it dosen't do it for me!!!!

this is not a DNS bsic configuration error as I have the exact same working configuration on a slower machine.

anyone know why the "better" machine dosen't use DNS to resolv? I suspect it's just a basic option that's wrong...

Thanks
D-Silence

 

[fluid11]

You use the hosts file in addition to DNS.

Did you set your server up to resolve names on the internet? Probably not. You need to forward outside requests to your ISP's name server (or whoever you want to use). You need an entry similar to this in your /etc/named.conf...

options {
directory "/var/named";
forwarders {
123.45.67.89;
123.45.67.88;
};

The IPs above are the addresses of my ISP's name servers.


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