[SunHELP] Bind 9.2.3

[Ron Wickersham]

hi Lara,

i read the digest so this may be very late on the thread...

1) you have the PTR records for three hosts in  the file
   /var/named/rev.213.128.229

2) but you don't have A records for them in
   /var/named/accesscomputing.co.uk
   the MX record is ok so far as it goes, but it doesn't have an A record
   to give an address to mailhost.accesscomputing.co.uk.   (likewise you
   don't have an A record for www.accesscomputing.co.uk).

3) in another msg it could be inferred that the host you are running on is
   a single box which is to have the three numeric addresses and run all
   the services on the single box (at least for testing).   if this is the
   case then you need to add suitable lines in /etc/ such as hostname:le0:1
   hostname:le0:2 in addition to the main hostname:le0 file and reboot or
   alternately ifconfig the additional addresses manually.

4) finally, i'd comment out all the options you have added in the config
   file (except for the directory and pid file) and see if that helps.
   then add them back one at a time to see if one of them breaks.  i had
   to look up some of them as they are rarely encountered, although i
   couldn't see anything obviously wrong there, i've never used most of
   them.

hth,

-ron

> Message: 7
> Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 15:52:32 +0100
> From: Lara Matthews <lara.matthews at accesscomputing.co.uk>
> Subject: Re: [SunHELP] Bind 9.2.3
> To: The SunHELP List <sunhelp at sunhelp.org>
> Message-ID: <40B35DB0.6090306 at accesscomputing.co.uk>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
>
> Hi Eric
>
> Here are my config files:
>
> bash-2.05# more /etc/named.conf
> // BIND configuration file
>
> options {
>          directory "/var/named";
>          query-source address * port 53;
>          pid-file "/var/run/named.pid";
>          stacksize 30M;
>          datasize 20M;
>          auth-nxdomain yes;      // v9 wants this?
>          allow-transfer {nameservers ; };   // this limits ALL zones
>          transfer-format many-answers;           // faster transfers
> };
> zone "accesscomputing.co.uk" {
>          type master;
>          file "accesscomputing.co.uk";
> };
>
> zone "229.128.213.in-addr.arpa" IN {
>          type master;
>          file "rev.213.128.229";
>
> };
> zone "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa" in {
>          type master;
>          file "localhost.rev";
> };
> //eof
>
> _______________________________________________________________________________________
>
> bash-2.05# more /var/named/accesscomputing.co.uk
> ; /var/named/accesscomputing.co.uk
> ;
> ; This line must be at the beginning of the file, it indicates that
> ; the name server being master for all the following addresses
> ;
> $TTL 86400   ; Default TTL in secs(1 day)
> @       IN SOA ns.accesscomputing.co.uk. root.accesscomputing.co.uk. (
>          2004052501      ; Serial number yyyymmddvv
>          10800   ; Refresh  (3, was 8 hours)
>          3600    ; Retry (1, was 2 hours)
>          604800  ; Expire (7 days)
>          86400   ;
> )
> ;
> ; Descriptions of name servers for this domain
> ;
> accesscomputing.co.uk.          IN      NS      ns.accesscomputing.co.uk.
> ;
> accesscomputing.co.uk.          IN      MX 1
> mailhost.accesscomputing.co.uk.
> ;
> localhost.accesscomputing.co.uk.        IN      A       127.0.0.1
> ns.accesscomputing.co.uk.               IN      A       213.128.229.77
>
> ;eof
>
> ___________________________________________________________________________________________
>
> bash-2.05# more /var/named/rev.213.128.229
> ; /var/named/accesscomputing.co.uk
> ;
> $TTL 1D   ; Default TTL in secs(1 day)
>
> @       IN SOA ns.accesscomputing.co.uk. root.accesscomputing.co.uk. (
>          2004052502      ; Serial number yyyymmddvv
>          10800   ; Refresh  (3, was 8 hours)
>          3600    ; Retry (1, was 2 hours)
>          604800  ; Expire (7 days)
>          86400   ; Minimum
> )
> ;
>
> ; Descriptions of name servers for this domain
>                          IN      NS      ns.accesscomputing.co.uk.
> ;
> ns                      IN      A       213.128.229.77
> ;
> ; Reverse lookups
> 77 IN PTR ns.accesscomputing.co.uk.
> 78 IN PTR mailhost.accesscomputing.co.uk.
> 79 IN PTR www.accesscomputing.co.uk.
>
> ;eof
>
> ____________________________________________________________________________________________
>
> bash-2.05# more /var/named/localhost.rev
> $TTL 3h
> 0.0.127.in-addr.arpa. IN SOA ns.accesscomputing.co.uk.
> root.accesscomputing.co.u
> k. (
>                            2004052501        ; Serial
>                            3h       ; Refresh after 3 hours
>                            1h       ; Retry after 1 hour
>                            1w       ; Expire after 1 week
>                            1h )     ; Negative caching TTL of 1 hour
>
> 0.0.127.in-addr.arpa.  IN NS  ns.accesscomputing.co.uk.
>
> 1.0.0.127.in-addr.arpa.  IN PTR localhost.
>
> ______________________________________________________________________________________________
>
> I think that is them all.
>
> A pretty simple setup just to get started.
>
> Any help greatly appreciated.
>
> Kind regards
>
> Lara
>
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