OS Info: LAMP on Ubuntu 14.04
Tutorial Followed: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-configure-bind-as-a-caching-or-forwarding-dns-server-on-ubuntu-14-04

When I ping google.com using “ping -c 1 google.com” I get no results. My apache website is live at simplyjordan.net. When I “dig simplyjordan.net” on my regular computer, the right information shows up.

It seems when I only dig my domain while SSH’d onto my server all outgoing commands are blocked. If I need to provide any more information, just let me know. Thanks!

Below is my “tail -f /var/log/syslog” log:

Sep  8 00:08:20 simplyjordan ntpdate[614]: Can't find host ntp.ubuntu.com: Name or service not known (-2)
Sep  8 00:08:20 simplyjordan ntpdate[614]: no servers can be used, exiting
Sep  8 00:08:50 simplyjordan ntpdate[1416]: Can't find host ntp.ubuntu.com: Name or service not known (-2)
Sep  8 00:08:50 simplyjordan ntpdate[1416]: no servers can be used, exiting
Sep  8 00:08:56 simplyjordan kernel: [   60.531994] random: nonblocking pool is initialized
Sep  8 00:09:01 simplyjordan CRON[1423]: (root) CMD (  [ -x /usr/lib/php5/maxlifetime ] && [ -x /usr/lib/php5/sessionclean ] && [ -d /var/lib/php5 ] && /usr/lib/php5/sessionclean /var/lib/php5 $(/usr/lib/php5/maxlifetime))

Below is my “/etc/network/interfaces” file (IPADDR = my servers actual IP address):

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
        address IPADDR
        netmask 255.255.255.0
        gateway 162.243.118.1
        dns-nameservers 192.0.2.1

Below is my “/etc/bin/named.conf.options” file info (IPADDR = my servers actual IP address):

acl goodclients {
    IPADDR;
    localhost;
    localnets;
};

options {
        directory "/var/cache/bind";

        recursion yes;
        allow-query { goodclients; };

        forwarders {
                8.8.8.8;
                8.8.4.4;
        };

        forward only;

        dnssec-enable yes;
        dnssec-validation yes;

        auth-nxdomain no;    # conform to RFC1035
        listen-on-v6 { any; };
};

I didn’t have a folder or file named “/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0”, so I just created one. Here is what it says:

DNS1=192.0.2.1