refused queries

[bloodfilledwater]

I installed bind 9.4.2 with webmin. If I do nslookup and make the server the box running bind, I can resolve master zone records. If I try to resolve anything else (e.g. google.com) I get an error "** server can't find www.google.com.blah.com: REFUSED" This was from outside my network. I can resolve stuff all day long from within my network. I've looked up all kinds of howtos and what not, I can't figure out why outside queries are being refused. Any help will be appreciated.

[iwanabeguru]

The

www.google.com.blah.com

not a valid URL.
The DNS system has hierarchical structure.

for example

www.google.com.

note the dot at the end of the URL.
The dot means the dns root server , com is a top level domain , google is a subdomain in the com domain , www is a subdomain in google. The whole DNS system is a tree and you can navigate in the tree , every node is uniq , so every path is uniq too.

If you have a dns server for resolving names for your webpages or services you must be under one of the TLDs.

for example you wana run a webserver the url must be something like this

www.blah.com.

or
mypage.blah.com.

com can be any tlds it's country related.

If you want resolve an otside address with your dns server you must use the original url like

www.google.com

, and your dns server will resolve the name .

[bloodfilledwater]

Yeah, I understand that, but I just put "blah" there for masking a friends domain I was testing with at the time. I got the issue fix, but now when I use nslookup, I get a dns timed out in 2 seconds here, but still gives results. And I have two master zones, one of which will not resolve from twc dns that I can tell and resolves everywhere else. Not sure if that's on my end or twc's end. This is what I get from twc dns

nslookup someasshat.com
;; Got SERVFAIL reply from 76.85.229.110, trying next server
Server: 76.85.229.110
Address: 76.85.229.110#53

This is from opendns

nslookup someasshat.com 208.67.222.222
Server: 208.67.222.222
Address: 208.67.222.222#53

Non-authoritative answer:
Name: someasshat.com
Address: 66.226.84.96