hi all,

thx to bastard23 for helping me resolving my problem. so now, i have my local dns also forwarding to external requests!

But now, another problem occurs:

on the machine running bind, i have 2 nics, serving 2 subnets:

Net Subnet
10.0.0.0 255.0.0.0
192.168.0.0 255.255.255.0

and i would like to make dns for both.

so i did:
1 file gwch.net.db for my forward-zone
1 file 0.10.db for my reverse-zone on the 10.0.0.0 net
1 file 168.192.db for my reverse-zone on the 192.168.0.0 net

so, i inserted it to named.conf (no problem)
but if i start named.conf, the following error occurs:
Aug 14 10:11:33 trinity /usr/sbin/named[27604]: dns_master_load: 168.192.db:11: 0.168.192.in-addr.arpa: not at top of zone
Aug 14 10:11:33 trinity /usr/sbin/named[27604]: dns_zone_load: zone 168.192.in-addr.arpa/IN: loading master file 168.192.db: not at top of zone


Does anybody know what this means? is there a problem having the 2nd reverse zone?


here my gwch.net.db
---------------------------
trinity:/var/named # more gwch.net.db
$TTL 86400 ; 1 day
$ORIGIN .
gwch.net. IN SOA trinity.gwch.net. root.trinity.gwch.net. (
2003081122; serial
10800; refresh
900; retry
604800; expire
86400; minimum
)
NS trinity.gwch.net.
A 10.0.0.2
$ORIGIN gwch.net.
morpheus A 10.0.0.1
trinity A 10.0.0.2
connect A 192.168.0.1
trinity A 192.168.0.100
link A 192.168.0.101
www CNAME link.gwch.net.

here my 0.10.db
---------------------

trinity:/var/named # more 0.10.db
$ORIGIN .
$TTL 84600
0.0.10.in-addr.arpa IN SOA trinity.gwch.net. root.trinity.gwch.net. (
2003081152; serial
10800; refresh
900; retry
604800; expire
86400; minimum
)
NS trinity.gwch.net.
A 10.0.0.2
$ORIGIN 0.0.10.in-addr.arpa.
1 PTR morpheus.gwch.net.
2 PTR trinity.gwch.net.

here my 168.192.db
--------------------------

trinity:/var/named # more 168.192.db
$ORIGIN .
$TTL 84600
0.168.192.in-addr.arpa IN SOA trinity.gwch.net. root.trinity.gwch.net. (
2003081204; serial
10800; refresh
900; retry
604800; expire
86400; minimum
)
NS trinity.gwch.net.
A 192.168.0.100
$ORIGIN 0.168.192.in-addr.arpa.
1 PTR connect.gwch.net.
100 PTR trinity.gwch.net.
101 PTR link.gwch.net.

Thx for any help!!!

DNS: Bind 9
System: SuSE 8.0 *lol* on a p1/166 mhz machine....

two questions.

1st. what is the output of named-checkzone ?
2nd are you possibly missing a trailing period ?

I was getting this:
# named-checkzone test.com test.zone
dns_master_load: test.zone: SOA record not at top of zone (test.com.test.com)
zone test.com/IN: loading master file test.zone: not at top of zone

Until I added a period after the second line of the zone file:
$ORIGIN test.com.

hope it helps.

1st) named-checkzone
trinity:/var/named # named-checkzone gwch.net 168.192.db
dns_master_load: 168.192.db:3: ignoring out-of-zone data (0.168.192.in-addr.arpa)
dns_master_load: 168.192.db:13: ignoring out-of-zone data (1.0.168.192.in-addr.arpa)
dns_master_load: 168.192.db:14: ignoring out-of-zone data (100.0.168.192.in-addr.arpa)
dns_master_load: 168.192.db:15: ignoring out-of-zone data (101.0.168.192.in-addr.arpa)
dns_zone_load: zone gwch.net/IN: could not find NS and/or SOA records
dns_zone_load: zone gwch.net/IN: has 0 SOA records
dns_zone_load: zone gwch.net/IN: no NS records

2) the PTR-Database

$TTL 86400 ; 23 hours 30 minutes
0.168.192.in-addr.arpa IN SOA trinity.gwch.net. root.trinity.gwch.net. (
2003081157 ; serial
10800 ; refresh (3 hours)
900 ; retry (15 minutes)
604800 ; expire (1 week)
86400 ; minimum (1 day)
)
NS trinity.gwch.net.
A 192.168.0.100
$ORIGIN 0.168.192.in-addr.arpa.
1 PTR connect.gwch.net.
100 PTR trinity.gwch.net.
101 PTR link.gwch.net.