Try to figure a basic conf for BIND on Mac Catalina

[David Chandler]

I have been working on this for days. Anything other than Caching-only configuration will not register anything. Port 53 will not open.
Looking for help with a configuration that will allow this server to be authority for 2 domains focushm.com and focushs.com and forward for all others. Don’t know if I am missing something on the Macintosh but I have followed every configuration I have found on Google and read every document I could find on BIND. Even the sample configuration for the Authoritative Server in the BIND9 documentation yields no joy. The Caching-only will but not the Authoritative.

Any advice would be helpful!
David Chandler


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[Warren Kumari]

On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 9:53 AM David Chandler

Post by David Chandler
I have been working on this for days. Anything other than Caching-only configuration will not register anything. Port 53 will not open.

It is unclear what you are meaning by "Port 53 will not open" - is
BIND binding to the port? Does it show up in sudo netstat -nP -f inet
-f inet6 | grep '\.53' ? If you telnet (nc) to localhost 53 do you
get anything?
If yes to the above, it sounds like you have the firewall enabled:
https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/change-firewall-preferences-on-mac-mh11783/mac

W

Post by David Chandler
Looking for help with a configuration that will allow this server to be authority for 2 domains focushm.com and focushs.com and forward for all others. Don’t know if I am missing something on the Macintosh but I have followed every configuration I have found on Google and read every document I could find on BIND. Even the sample configuration for the Authoritative Server in the BIND9 documentation yields no joy. The Caching-only will but not the Authoritative.
Any advice would be helpful!
David Chandler
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[David Chandler]

Firewall was not enabled. The BIND service was not engaged nor would it engage with anything other than Caching. I have since given up on trying to do this on a Mac and installed Debian. It would appear that the variation used by Debian is more flexible and has less issues than the Mac version which again was only happy with a very basic configuration.

I did install this version thru Brew which may mean that the package there just has not caught up to the one that Debian has as Debian's layout of the named.conf files was very different. The location of the files was also different but that is always to be expected when working within any Apple O/S environment.
David





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