Re: New install, having bind issues
From: Jeff Vian (jvian10_at_charter.net)
Date: 03/08/04
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To: fedora-list@redhat.com Date: Sun, 07 Mar 2004 22:55:52 -0600
Jeremy Lunsford wrote:
>I hope someone can help, I've been beating my head against this for the
>last 24hours.
>
>I just did a fresh install of Fedora. The install seemed to go well, so
>I started restoring all my files. I checked the new named.conf file and
>all the header stuff at the top matched up exactly with my old one.
>(Which was from a RedHat 9 install, so same major version of bind) So I
>copied my named.conf file into /etc. I then copied all my zone files
>into /var/named. (Not replacing the hint file) Then I started bind..
>It will resolve other domains with no problem, but when I query it about
>a domain that it is master for it gives me a
>
> ** server can't find thedames.com: SERVFAIL
>
>In my log file all I get is a lame server error..
>
> Mar 7 20:56:24 bender named[22199]: lame server resolving
>'thedames.com' (in 'thedames.com'?): 209.75.97.4#53
>
>
Look at the line I marked below. The filename is different than all the
others.
>So my server clearly doesn't think that it has info for those zones. At
>first I thought this was a permissions issue. However at this point my
>named.conf file and all my zone files are 777 with an owner of named.
>So I don't think that is an issue.. I don't get any errors when
>restarting named. It just happily says that its loading named.conf and
>that everything is great.
>
> Mar 7 20:48:55 bender named[22199]: starting BIND 9.2.2-P3 -u named
>-t /var/named/chroot
> Mar 7 20:48:55 bender named[22199]: using 1 CPU
> Mar 7 20:48:55 bender named[22199]: loading configuration from
>'/etc/named.conf'
> Mar 7 20:48:55 bender named[22199]: no IPv6 interfaces found
> Mar 7 20:48:55 bender named[22199]: listening on IPv4 interface lo,
>127.0.0.1#53
> Mar 7 20:48:55 bender named[22199]: listening on IPv4 interface
>eth0, 209.75.97.2#53
> Mar 7 20:48:55 bender named[22199]: command channel listening on
>127.0.0.1#953
> Mar 7 20:48:55 bender named[22199]: running
> Mar 7 17:48:55 bender named: named startup succeeded
>
>
>If I run named-checkconf on my named.conf file I get the following:
>
> [root@bender etc]# named-checkconf -t /etc/ named.conf
> named.conf:4: change directory to '/var/named' failed: file not found
> named.conf:4: parsing failed
>
>I had my friend run that same command on his server thou, and he got the
>same error. I think I'm running the command wrong.
>
>Here is my current named.conf file, and one of my zone files:
>
>// generated by named-bootconf.pl
>
>options {
> directory "/var/named";
> /*
> * If there is a firewall between you and nameservers you want
> * to talk to, you might need to uncomment the query-source
> * directive below. Previous versions of BIND always asked
> * questions using port 53, but BIND 8.1 uses an unprivileged
> * port by default.
> */
> // query-source address * port 53;
>};
>
>//
>// a caching only nameserver config
>//
>controls {
> inet 127.0.0.1 allow { localhost; } keys { rndckey; };
>};
>zone "." IN {
> type hint;
> file "named.ca";
>};
>
>zone "localhost" IN {
> type master;
> file "localhost.zone";
> allow-update { none; };
>};
>
>zone "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa" IN {
> type master;
> file "named.local";
> allow-update { none; };
>};
>
>include "/etc/rndc.key";
>
>
>zone "vmfaq.com"{
> type master;
> file "vmfaq.com";
>};
>
>zone "ethiopianet.net"{
> type master;
> file "./ethiopianet.net";
>};
>
>zone "thecryptorium.com"{
> type master;
> file "./thecryptorium.com";
>};
>
>zone "monku.org"{
> type master;
> file "./monku.org";
>};
>
>zone "thedames.com"{
> type master;
> file "thedames.com";
>};
>
>
This one is different. All the other filenames have a "./" in front of
the file name.
>zone "gravelymanor.com"{
> type master;
> file "./gravelymanor.com";
>};
>
>
>
>;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
>; File vmfaq.com
>;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
>; $ORIGIN vmfaq.com
>; @ = vmfaq.com
>;
>@ 86400 IN SOA ns1.vmfaq.com. dnsadmin.vmfaq.com. (
> 200403070 ; Serial number
> 10800 ; Refresh after 3 hours
> 3600 ; Retry after 1 hour
> 604800 ; Expire after 1 week
> 86400 ) ; Minimum TTL of 1 day
>
> 86400 IN NS ns1.vmfaq.com.
> 86400 IN NS ns1.thoene.net.
>
>
>vmfaq.com. 86400 IN A 209.75.97.2
> 86400 IN MX 0 mx1.veriomail.com.
>www 86400 IN A 209.75.97.2
>bender 86400 IN A 209.75.97.2
>ns1 86400 IN A 209.75.97.2
>fonts 86400 IN A 209.75.97.2
>
>
>
>I found one place that said that I needed to put a $TTL 1D at the top of
>my zones files. I've tried that, no luck.. Plus, the zone checker
>utility says all my zones are ok. Besides my zone files having their
>permissions wide open, so does the actual named directory..
>
>If anyone has some suggestions, I'd love to hear them. I've never had
>this kind of problem with DNS before. I've been doing it for quite a
>while and the thing I love about bind is that it always just works.
>(Except today.)
>
>Thanks!!!!
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
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