----- Original Message ----- | Thank you for all the help so far. To conclude: | I have one physical server that answers to the following IP addresses: | 1.1.1.1 | 1.1.1.2 | 1.1.1.3 | 1.1.1.4 | | I need 1.1.1.1 & 1.1.1.2 to be the name servers for exampleA.com, and | 1.1.1.3 & 1.1.1.4 to be the nameservers for exampleB.com. I have these | files: | | # cat /etc/named.conf | | options { | directory "/etc"; | pid-file "/var/run/named/named.pid"; | listen-on { | any; | }; | }; | | zone "." { | type hint; | file "/etc/db.cache"; | }; | | zone "exampleA.com" { | type master; | file "/var/named/exampleA.com.hosts"; | }; | zone "exampleB.com" { | type master; | file "/var/named/exampleB.com.hosts"; | }; | | | | # cat /var/named/exampleA.com.hosts | | $ORIGIN exampleA.com. | $TTL 1h | exampleA.com. IN SOA ns1.exampleA.com. ns2.exampleA.com. ( | 1; Serial - increment me | 10800 | 3600 | 604800 | 38400 ) | exampleA.com. IN NS ns1.exampleA.com. | exampleA.com. IN NS ns2.exampleA.com. | exampleA.com. IN A 1.1.1.1 | exampleA.com. IN A 1.1.1.2 formatting for NS records is incorrect. It should just read NS ns1.exampleA.com NS ns2.exampleA.com where is your ns1.exampleA.com entry? where is your ns2.exampleA.com entry? | # cat /var/named/exampleB.com.hosts | | $ORIGIN exampleB.com. | $TTL 1h | exampleB.com. IN SOA ns1.exampleB.com. ns2.exampleB.com. ( | 1; Serial - increment me | 10800 | 3600 | 604800 | 38400 ) | exampleB.com. IN NS ns1.exampleB.com. | exampleB.com. IN NS ns2.exampleB.com. | exampleB.com. IN A 1.1.1.3 | exampleB.com. IN A 1.1.1.4 NS records are same as above. Correct your formatting. A records are not needed for NS records from a different zone, only for that zone | How does that look? Broken! :) -- James A. Peltier Systems Analyst (FASNet), VIVARIUM Technical Director Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-6573 Fax : 778-782-3045 E-Mail : jpeltier at sfu.ca Website : http://www.fas.sfu.ca | http://vivarium.cs.sfu.ca MSN : subatomic_spam at hotmail.com Does your OS has a man 8 lart? http://www.xinu.nl/unix/humour/asr-manpages/lart.html