Tinydns issues

Hey gang,

Here is the issue im having:

I installed Tinydns on RHEL ES4. Everything was fine. This morning I
saw that my dns server is not accepting queries on port 53. Netstat
shows the follwing:

udp 0 0 <IP>:53
0.0.0.0:* 5652/tinydns


svstat shows tinydns running, and no errors on the multilog.

when I do a "telnet localhost 53" it does not even make a socket
connection.
Any ideas?

Thanks in advanced

2007-06-28, 23:35(-00), (E-Mail Removed):
[..]
> Here is the issue im having:
>
> I installed Tinydns on RHEL ES4. Everything was fine. This morning I
> saw that my dns server is not accepting queries on port 53. Netstat
> shows the follwing:
>
> udp 0 0 <IP>:53
> 0.0.0.0:* 5652/tinydns
>
>
> svstat shows tinydns running, and no errors on the multilog.
>
> when I do a "telnet localhost 53" it does not even make a socket
> connection.
> Any ideas?
[...]

telnet uses TCP, not UDP. UDP is not a connection oriented
transport protocol. DNS general works over UDP but can also work
over TCP. Your Tinydns may be configured to only use UDP (which
is fine).

Also, your netstat shows that tinydns is listening on the <IP>
interface, not on the loopback interface (127.0.0.1, or ::1), so
trying to contact "localhost" won't help.

--
Stéphane