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How do I make my DNS server resolve external addresses?

Posted on October 2, 2013

Hi guys, I would just like to know what I need to do to make my DNS server resolve external websites, I connect directly to my DNS server from my PC and my DNS can resolve all of the records hosted in it but if, for example I try to go to google.com then it won’t resolve.

I’m using BIND on an Ubuntu 12.04 x64 Droplet.

Thanks in advance, Francis



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What’s the output of <code>cat /etc/resolv.conf</code>?

search ow (This is because I host my own tld off of it) <br>nameserver 162.243.28.202 <br>nameserver 8.8.8.8 <br>nameserver 8.8.4.4 <br> <br>Thanks for replying!

It’s working fine for me: <br> <br><pre>$ dig google.com @162.243.28.202 <br> <br>[…] <br> <br>;; QUESTION SECTION: <br>;google.com. IN A <br> <br>;; ANSWER SECTION: <br>google.com. 84 IN A 62.0.54.109 <br>google.com. 84 IN A 62.0.54.88 <br>google.com. 84 IN A 62.0.54.114 <br>google.com. 84 IN A 62.0.54.103 <br>[…]</pre>

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