Brian, thanks for the replay. I did fix that. But I still can not get my ftp, www, mail items into the global DNS. Is it correct to use the CNAME option or do I dust need to do add the following in my domain file: ftp IN A Will that make it so I can do ftp ftp.thesanders.org. One more question for you since you know what you are doing. I have done a ping ftp.thesanders.org and I get a reply that is not my IP address. So I do an nslookup on ftp.thesanders.org and I get: Non-authoritative answer: Name: sd2.mailbank.com Address: 208.49.167.82 Aliases: ftp.thesanders.org, ns1.thesanders.com That is not my IP address. It appears that someone has been using ftp.thesanders.org as an alias without owning the domain name. When I get my DNS correct will this be replaced by mine. I did my registration via doster.com. Brian Cluff wrote: > You have a dot at the end of "thesanders.org" in you named.conf file. That > should be the major thing that is making it not work : > zone "thesanders.org."{ <-- no period at end of org > type master; > file "thesanders.org"; > notify yes; > }; > As for time it takes to get working once you have it in your DNS. It > depends on if you moved the domain to your box from someone elses or if you > just bought the domain and your machine ifs the first one to ever host that > domain. In the latter case, everything will start working and be correct > from the very first day that you host the domain. In the case of moving a > domain it depends on a couple of things, if the party looking up your domain > before or not, and the time that you have your dns cache set to. If > someone's dns has never looked up your domain before, you are all set, all > new queries will go to your new dns location. If they have looked you up, > you will have to wait for the amount of time you have set for them to cache > they data before the new dns requests will go to your new dns location, it > could be hours, days, weeks , or even months. One trick that I try to do is > sent the DNS cache down to just a few minutes before I move it. That way > most people's dns will time out relativly quickly and they will get your new > dns. These days there are people like @home that have a hard coded minimum > cache time, so even if you have jumped though all the hoops to make sure > that you have a smooth DNS transfer, you end up haveing to wait a couple of > weeks until their DNS decides for itself that it would be ok to get rid of > it horribly outdated DNS info. > > Brian Cluff > (Any imperfections in the above should be are a sign of its hand crafted > nature and only add character to the message) > ----- Original Message ----- > > Sorry for the long email, but I am struggling and wanted to make sure > > I gave all the info that I had. Thanks in advance. > > > > I run Mandrake 7.0 and BIND 8.2.2 > > > > I have recently go my own domain, thesanders.org. I am going to be my > > master DNS server, with ns1.granitecanyon.com being my secondary. I > > want to let the DNS tables see the following: > > thesanders.org > > www.thesanders.org > > ftp.thesanders.org > > mail.thesanders.org > > > > all resolving to my IP address. > > > > I copied a friend of mine who basically does the same thing. However > > mine does not seem to be working correctly. See my named.conf and > > thesanders.org zone file below. Also, how long does it take to get > > informatin into the "world" DNS tables? I have seen answers from 3 days > > > > upto weeks. Just curious. > > > > Also is there a way I can get my secondary updated as soon as I update > > my primary? notify option? create a secondary entry? > > > > > > Files > > > ============================================================================ > ======= > > > > # zone file (in /var/named) > > @ IN SOA thesanders.org. > > hostmaster.thesanders.org. ( > > 2000080705 ; serial > > 3600 ; refresh > > 900 ; retry > > 1209600 ; expire > > 43200 ; default_ttl > > ) > > IN MX 5 mail.thesanders.org. > > IN NS ns1.thesanders.org. > > IN NS ns1.granitecanyon.com. > > @ IN A 63.227.248.168 > > ns1 IN A 63.227.248.168 > > mail IN CNAME ns1.thesanders.com. > > www IN CNAME ns1.thesanders.com. > > ftp IN CNAME ns1.thesanders.com. > > > > > > # named.conf file in /etc > > options { > > directory "/var/named"; > > }; > > zone "." { > > type hint; > > file "named.ca"; > > }; > > zone "localhost"{ > > type master; > > file "named.local"; > > }; > > zone "thesanders.org."{ > > type master; > > file "thesanders.org"; > > notify yes; > > }; > > zone "0.0.127.IN-ADDR.ARPA"{ > > type master; > > file "127.0.0"; > > notify no; > > }; > > > > > > > > -- > > - > > ============================ > > Tim M. Sanders > > MontaVista Software > > 2141 E. Broadway Rd,. 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