Hello Robert,
What is listed in /etc/resolv.conf? You should have something like:
search my.domain
nameserver 10.0.0.1
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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