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I've tried many times over to configure a DNS server. This doesn't seem to be working out well. I always get this error.

Code:

 [root@mun-175-25 ~]# service 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 example.com/IN: loading master file db.example.com: file not found

_default/example.com/IN: file not found

                                                          [FAILED]

I'm doing this straight out of a book so we have "example.com"

The "db.example.com" exists in the /var/named directory but it cannot be found. This is the configuration:

Code:

[root@mun-175-25 ~]# vi /var/named/db.example.com

$TTL    86400

@      IN      SOA    example.com.

hostmaster.example.com. (

                                2005072001      ;      Serial

                                28800          ;      Refresh

                                14400          ;      Retry

                                3600000        ;      Expire

                                86499  )      ;      minimum

; Name Servers

        IN      NS      ns1.example.com.

        IN      NS

;ns2.secondaryDNSserver.com.



; Mail server for domain



; Public servers



ftp    IN      A      192.168.0.1



;EOF

I don't know where I've gone wrong here but this is driving me crazy! Help Me Please!!!

the version of bind you are using is likely chroot'ed.
rather than editing /etc/named.conf & /var/named/db.example.com
you should start as if /var/named/chroot/ = /
so you would be editing /var/named/chroot/etc/named.conf & /var/named/chroot/var/named/db.example.com

hope this helps

Hi,

did you check the /var/named/db.example.com permissions?

The version of BIND that i am using is chroot'ed so that has been corrected. The named service starts , finally!
As for the permissions... I forget how to check that at the moment. chmod, then what?

Now i have another problem. i have a laptop that's set under the (supposed) DNS server. When i try to ping or do a "whois" command it just hangs. I don't have the slightest clue as to what it might be doing. I know this is very little information but i don't know what type of information might be needed to begin the troubleshooting.

Hi,

as for permissions, 'ls -l' will give you every info...

what do you mean by "hang": you have no output and it stops, you've got to ^C the command or it freezes your laptop?

By hanging I mean there's no output. I think that i didnt set up my routing commands correctly. The laptop can resolve the IP address for a website (like www.google.com). But I think there's a problem on the receiving side.

*****EDIT
If it means anything the client laptop reports being on the local domain (localhost.localdomain).

*****EDIT #1
Nevermind the post guys. There was a forwading issue that I didn't take care of in the firewall. It works just fine now. Thanks for the help