Topic: TINYDNS... I don't know wether it's working !!!

[mrhutch]

Hey y'all

relatiely new to SME, running 6.0.1 with plus installed

but... when doing a  
# tinydns status

I get "tinydns: fatal: $IP not set"

anyone tell me what this means >>>
TIA

Hutch

[cc_skavenger]

Try /etc/rc.d/init.d/tinydns status instead.

Also from the command line, type ping www.google.com; If it responds with ping times, then your system is resolving correctly.

HTH

[mrhutch]

cheers!!

I knew the box could see the outside world, just trying to get a small website running from behind an ADSL router on dynamic IP


[root@sme01 root]# /etc/rc.d/init.d/tinydns status
/service/tinydns: up (pid 1416) 43581 seconds, normally down
[root@sme01 root]# ping www.google.com
PING www.l.google.com (66.249.87.104) from 192.168.200.1 : 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 66.249.87.104: icmp_seq=1 ttl=244 time=46.9 ms
64 bytes from 66.249.87.104: icmp_seq=2 ttl=244 time=47.4 ms
64 bytes from 66.249.87.104: icmp_seq=3 ttl=244 time=46.9 ms



above looks good...  

but when I run a test on checkdns.net, it resolves the IP of my server but gives "Error fetching SOA" when verifying that the nameservers are alive..  I've got port 53 forwarded to the SME box from the router for BOTH rdp and udp...

[CharlieBrady]

but when I run a test on checkdns.net, it resolves the IP of my server but gives "Error fetching SOA" when verifying that the nameservers are alive..

The nameservers referred to are external nameservers on the Internet (doing either forward DNS for your domain or reverse DNS for your IP address), and nothing to do with your SME server.