DNS

[flexibeast]

During the last couple of days i've been trying to set up a DNS server (specifically, BIND). And i'm completely stumped.

named(8) is running fine, as shown by the output of lsof -iUDP:53:

named   8842 named   20u  IPv4 7765318       UDP [host]:domain
named   8842 named   22u  IPv4 7765320       UDP [host]:domain
named   8842 named   24u  IPv4 7765322       UDP *:domain

and dig(1) seems to be working properly, since running dig -b 127.0.0.1 @127.0.0.1 localhost followed by tshark -i lo -f 'port 53' produces:

Capturing on lo
  0.000000    127.0.0.1 -> 127.0.0.1    DNS Standard query A localhost
  5.000241    127.0.0.1 -> 127.0.0.1    DNS Standard query A localhost
 10.001650    127.0.0.1 -> 127.0.0.1    DNS Standard query A localhost
3 packets captured

but the result returned by dig is:

; <<>> DiG 9.3.1 <<>> -b 127.0.0.1 @127.0.0.1 localhost
; (1 server found)
;; global options:  printcmd
;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached

Now the obvious possible problem here is the firewall, but iptables -vL INPUT gives us:

 pkts bytes target     prot opt in     out     source               destination         
1819K  705M ACCEPT     all  --  lo     any     anywhere             anywhere

and anyway, Privoxy is communicating with Squid via loopback just fine.

What am i missing here? If anyone has any suggestions, i'd be most interested to hear them . . . .