At 11:30 AM 12/30/2005, Jerry57 (GMail) wrote:
>Hello Robert,
>
> What is listed in /etc/resolv.conf? You should have something like:
> search my.domain
> nameserver 10.0.0.1
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.
> where my.domain is the domainname for your network and 10.0.0.1 is
> the IP of the DNS server you are setting up.
>
> jer
>
>Friday, December 30, 2005, 9:12:52 AM, you wrote:
>
> > At 02:46 PM 12/29/2005, Benjamin Smith wrote:
> >>Restart named. ("#/etc/rc.d/init.d/named restart;") Then, test as follows,
> >>when logged into DNS system:
> >>
> >>nslookup - localhost
> >> > mydomain.com.
>
> > I have been getting no where with this one. Going through various
> > online BIND9 setup tutorials, I see a reference to nsswitch.conf. In
> > this file I find the entry:
>
> > hosts: files dns
>
> > I have yet to find any explaination of this file. Is there something
> > I need to add?
>
> > Also I found references to /etc/hostname and /etc/networks. Neither
> > are on my system. Are they needed?
>
> > And this was pretty much a standard CentOS 4.2 install, but I went
> > back using that 'broken' add/remove gui to add BIND that I forgot
> > (before I knew about yum install bind)
>
> >>Notice the dot at the end of the domain. It'll either work or tell
> >>you that it
> >>didn't. If it works, your DNS server is set up. If not, your DNS
> server isn't
> >>as properly configured as you think.
> >>
> >>-Ben
> >>
> >>On Thursday 29 December 2005 07:28, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> >> > I am setting up a new DNS server. It will be primary for my domain.
> >> >
> >> > This server is in an active subnet with a real public address.
> >> >
> >> > It is not setup yet properly in .com, but that is in the works.
> >> >
> >> > In the var/named/chroot/etc
> >> >
> >> > I added:
> >> >
> >> > named.custom (which I 'included' in named.conf)
> >> >
> >> > and my various zone files.
> >> >
> >> > All the log entries look good.
> >> >
> >> > Oh in /etc/resolv.conf, I added my system as one of the namewervers.
> >> >
> >> > When I go into nslookup and type any host name I get the error:
> >> >
> >> > ** server can't find foo:NXDOMAIN
> >> >
> >> > where foo is whatever I typed in.
> >> >
> >> > so what else did I forget to change?
> >> >
> >> >
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