Dear All My resolv.conf looks as below search netcloudjobs.com nameserver 10.0.0.1 nameserver 8.8.8.8 nameserver 127.0.0.1 I do not have any error logs. I just did one modification in named.conf. *allow-query { localhost; 10.0.0.1/24; 10.0.0.254/24; }; * *Line I modified to * *allow-query { any; };* With this change, now I am able to ping to ns1.netcloudjobs.com . Problem is 50% resolved. Kindly guide me if allow-query any is right thing to do or not. Next, how do I make sure www.netcloudjobs.com should resolve to my IP. In my BIND server the, the command "dig www.netcloudjobs.com" gives below output. [root at ip-173-201-189-43 named]# [root at ip-173-201-189-43 named]# [root at ip-173-201-189-43 named]# dig www.netcloudjobs.com ; <<>> DiG 9.8.2rc1-RedHat-9.8.2-0.10.rc1.el6_3.2 <<>> www.netcloudjobs.com ;; global options: +cmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 16461 ;; flags: qr aa rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 2 ;; WARNING: recursion requested but not available ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;www.netcloudjobs.com. IN A ;; ANSWER SECTION: www.netcloudjobs.com. 86400 IN A 173.201.189.43 ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: netcloudjobs.com. 86400 IN NS ns2.netcloudjobs.com. netcloudjobs.com. 86400 IN NS ns1.netcloudjobs.com. ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION: ns1.netcloudjobs.com. 86400 IN A 173.201.189.43 ns2.netcloudjobs.com. 86400 IN A 173.201.189.43 ;; Query time: 0 msec ;; SERVER: 10.0.0.1#53(10.0.0.1) ;; WHEN: Sun Mar 10 06:04:00 2013 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 122 [root at ip-173-201-189-43 named]# Can I assume that my configuration is proper? As just now I am able to ping ns1.netcloudjobs.com from remote machines, so pinging to www.netcloudjobs.com will take some more time. Please guide me... Austin On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 5:36 PM, Reindl Harald <h.reindl at thelounge.net>wrote: > > > Am 10.03.2013 12:57, schrieb Austin Einter: > > first why do you not post you error-messages > inputs, outputs or whatever instead only your config? > > > > And my reverse zone file looks as > > > > *$TTL 86400 > > @ IN SOA ns1.netcloudjobs.com. root.netcloudjobs.com. ( > > 2021071001 ;Serial > > 3600 ;Refresh > > 1800 ;Retry > > 604800 ;Expire > > 86400 ;Minimum TTL > > ) > > > > @ IN NS ns1.netcloudjobs.com. > > @ IN NS ns2.netcloudjobs.com. > > ns1 IN A 173.201.189.43 > > ns2 IN A 173.201.189.43 > > 43 IN PTR ns1.netcloudjobs.com. > > 44 IN PTR ns2.netcloudjobs.com. > > why does you PTR-file contain A-records? > >