# \`named\` returning a wrong IP

**URL:** <https://discourse.mailinabox.email/t/named-returning-a-wrong-ip/16165>\
**Category:** Help with Setup/Upgrade\
**Created:** [December 3, 2025, 1:07am UTC](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/t/named-returning-a-wrong-ip/16165 "2025-12-03T01:07:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![miaber](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/7c8e57/32.png) [@miaber](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/u/miaber)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2025, 1:07am UTC](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/t/named-returning-a-wrong-ip/16165/1 "2025-12-03T01:07:12Z")

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1. I configured `my.example.com` under Custom DNS to point to another server A
2. But running `dig my.example.com @localhost` on MIAB shows MIAB’s IP address B, which is incorrect
3. Running `dig ...` elsewhere also showed the incorrect IP address B
4. To be sure, I ran `service named stop` and `dig ...` again, sure enough, `dig` failed and wasn’t able to connect
5. From MIAB’s web-ui and `more /etc/nsd/zones/my.example.com.txt`, it shows my desired IP address A
6. I have also ran `resolvectl flush-caches`, no help

What am I missing?

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**Author:** ![miaber](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/7c8e57/32.png) [@miaber](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/u/miaber)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2025, 1:51am UTC](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/t/named-returning-a-wrong-ip/16165/2 "2025-12-03T01:51:26Z")

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I found the issue, it was a misconfiguration of my custom DNS, and also a bug (I think)

On v73, do you guys have `/var/log/nsd.log`? The bug seems to be that nsd is unable to create/write this file

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**Author:** ![KiekerJan](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/user_avatar/discourse.mailinabox.email/kiekerjan/32/2339_2.png) [@KiekerJan](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/u/KiekerJan)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2025, 8:24pm UTC](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/t/named-returning-a-wrong-ip/16165/3 "2025-12-04T20:24:33Z")

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Indeed, there’s a bug report for this: [NSD daemon fails to log into /var/log/ directory · Issue #2313 · mail-in-a-box/mailinabox · GitHub](https://github.com/mail-in-a-box/mailinabox/issues/2313)

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**Author:** ![system](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/uploads/default/original/2X/4/4d0933d13c456b7e57f296aa6cc344525b6f0c70.png) [@system](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/u/system)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2025, 8:25pm UTC](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/t/named-returning-a-wrong-ip/16165/4 "2025-12-11T20:25:25Z")

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