I know the comments about top posting, but I think it is ok in this case....
I finally got DNS working. Dumb dumb dumb.
I was so fed up, and since there was nothing on this system and I installed BIND by using the 'broken' redhat GUI instead of installing intially or using yum install, I did a total rebuild (and brought the system memory up to 256Mb by stealing from another system for now).
Had a real rough time on that reinstall (another story and post).
Well, I again copied my named.custom and *.zone files into /var/named/chroot/etc and it still did not work.
So I again stared at the system logs. I finally noticed that named.custom was being processed, but none of the zone files were being found.
I looked at my mode to named.conf and I had:
include "'/etc/named.custom"
But in named.custom I had:
file "whatever.zone"
Dah.
changed that to be "/etc/whatever.zone" and things started working right!
Now how in the bleep did I have this in my old attempt (but Centos 3.4) and it worked?
On to getting mail working then telling all and sundry that my primary dns server is on a new address. Oh what fun that will be!
At 12:19 PM 12/30/2005, Bryan J. Smith wrote:
On Fri, 2005-12-30 at 11:36 -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
I got that: cat resolv.conf ; generated by /sbin/dhclient-script search htt-consult.com nameserver 65.84.78.211 nameserver 65.84.78.209 Oh, and originally I installed the system to use DHCP. Then I the gnome Network control apt to edit stuff to go to the static address.
Is this your DNS server?
Your DNS server should use itself, and then forward as appropriate in its named.conf file.
This is coming up so much that I think we need just a dedicated FAQ on "proper DNS server/network configuration."
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