Hey guys,

I am having a bit of trouble with my newly purchased domain. I have have a website running on my Debian server, running apache. I have created a zone file that I believe is correct:

$TTL 1d
@ IN SOA inescapable.ca. (
2006100201 ; serial
3h ; refresh
1h ; retry
1w ; expiry
1d ) ; minimum


IN NS www 24.108.195.241.

I would really like to have my website accessible with the purchased domain. Thank guys you are going to save me

This is wrong. You have to define your dns server (I assume it's named www) and then the IP of www. E.g.

...And I believe you're missing the responsible host and user for the domain... I think it should go after the domain name being specified in the SOA record...

Cheers

Bathory, I am going to give that try right now. Thanks. I will keep both of you posted. Cheers.

Okay guys, this is the output:

dns_rdata_fromtext: master/inescapable.ca:3: near '3h': not a valid number
zone inescapable.ca/IN: loading master file master/inescapable.ca: not a valid number
_default/inescapable.ca/in: not a valid number
[FAILED]
[root@Burns michael]#

I am pretty sure 3h is a valid number. Any thoughts?

i see a couple problems. you didnt specify the domain at the start of your SOA record. also, you didnt mention the contact for the domain. try this:

$TTL 3600
nescapable.ca IN SOA nescapable.ca. webmaster.inescapable.ca (
.la.us. (

okay this is what I have in my configuration

$TTL 1d
@ IN SOA inescapable.ca. (
2006100201 ; serial
3h ; refresh
1h ; retry
1w ; expiry
1d ) ; minimum


IN NS www.inescapable.ca.
www IN A 24.108.195.241

and my error is

[root@Burns michael]# /etc/init.d/named start
Starting named:
Error in named configuration:
zone localdomain/IN: loaded serial 42
zone localhost/IN: loaded serial 42
zone 0.0.127.in-addr.arpa/IN: loaded serial 1997022700
zone 0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.ip6.arpa/IN: loaded serial 1997022700
zone 255.in-addr.arpa/IN: loaded serial 42
zone 0.in-addr.arpa/IN: loaded serial 42
dns_rdata_fromtext: master/inescapable.ca:3: near '3h': not a valid number
zone inescapable.ca/IN: loading master file master/inescapable.ca: not a valid number
_default/inescapable.ca/in: not a valid number
[FAILED]
[root@Burns michael]#

read my above message

Alright, here is the suggested updates.

$TTL 1d
@ inescapable.ca IN SOA webmaster.inescapable.ca. (
2006100201 ; serial
3h ; refresh
1h ; retry
1w ; expiry
1d ) ; minimum


IN NS www.inescapable.ca.
www IN A 24.108.195.241


Thanks again.

and with that recored I get this error.

master/inescapable.ca:2: unknown RR type 'inescapable.ca'
zone inescapable.ca/IN: loading master file master/inescapable.ca: unknown class/type
_default/inescapable.ca/in: unknown class/type
[FAILED]
[root@Burns michael]#


Thanks for all your time, I will return the favour anytime I can

Hi,
that's because you have it all mixed up...

For starters and to understand what's going on I'd suggest to be a bit more verbose and "canonical":
Which -- if you really want -- can of course be simplified to

Cheers
Rupert

PS: the "@" replaces the domain name. So it's either "@" or "inescapable.ca", but not both!

Alright Rupert,

I have taken note of your changes and applied them. This is slowly making more sense to me here. All the text that I have covered is only applicable to LAN's. Anyway with the follwing:

$TTL 1d
@ IN SOA www.inescapable.ca. hostmaster.inescapable.ca. ( 2006100201 ; serial 3h ; refresh 1h ; retry 1w ; expiry 1d ) ; minimum

IN NS www.inescapable.ca. www IN A 24.108.195.241

I get the following error:

master/inescapable.ca:11: unknown RR type 'www'
zone inescapable.ca/IN: loading master file master/inescapable.ca: unknown class/type
_default/inescapable.ca/in: unknown class/type

Thanks again!

Above is unbalanced parens. The first ; after serial number negates the rest of the line. Place each SOA entry on its own line as shown in other posts.
As the error states... www is unknown. Why? You should only list one RR record per line.

Again, follow the example syntax shown in other posts

Thanks for the insight Scowles. I now have named running, next I have to get my website associated with it

Great, looks like everything is setup. Does anybody know how long it takes for a website to become public?