Named DNS question

[Patrick Fleming]

On Wed, 29 Aug 2001, Bob Cober wrote:

I see you used the gui to put this file together, when I did that I had
problems. I decided to manually edit /etc/named.conf myself. I commented
out the section for named.ca... in Bind 8 it had all the top level DNS
servers and was used as a hint file, servers your machine would query in
the search for a machine name. In the default install of RH 7.1, this file
is blank, I have left it blank and commented the section:

zone "." {
	type hint;
	file "named.ca";
};

If you have included all of your DNS files from /var/named, I see that you
are not loading the zone VLANDDNS.zone. This does not look like a problem.
I just noticed that you have called the zone dns.vlan.sic... if your
network name is vlan.sic, then change that in named.conf to match, then
change the SOA field in dns.vlan.sic.zone to 'vlan.sic'

HTH
Patrick



> I'm still having DNS problems:
>
> I have attached my configuration.
>
> named.run is the output.
>
> Thanks again for any help...
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Patrick Fleming <pfleming@infomagic.net>
> To: <plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2001 8:42 PM
> Subject: Re: Named DNS question
>
>
> > On Tue, 28 Aug 2001, Bob Cober wrote:
> >
> > > Please help out a DNS/Bind newbie--
> > >
> > > I am trying to configure bind 9 on a bare RH7.1 box at work for our
> > > development vlan.  The vlan is not accessible from the outside, and this
> > > will be the only DNS server in it.  Do I have to configure a named.ca
> file?
> > > Everytime I start without the cache file defined at all (root="."),
> named
> > > starts up and then shuts down.  Should I set-up the .ca file to point to
> the
> > > dns server itself?
> >
> > You can comment out anything in /etc/named.conf that has to do with
> > outside networks (assuming that you only need to see the lan and the DNS
> > machine is only for the lan)
> > run tail -f /var/log/messages in a term window and watch what happens when
> > you restart named - I usually issue the command:
> > /etc/rc.d/rc3.d/S55named restart
> > Bind has gotten more picky recently in the move to more security.
> > Post any errors to the list if Bind doesn't start and run.
> > Patrick
> >
> >
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance for any help
> > > Bob
> > >
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