Hi,
I have configured dns server on suse 10 and I have installed suse 9.3 on one client machine.

I use those machines only locally, so they are not connected to the internet (actually they are two virtual machines in vmware workstation).

It seems that dns is working on dns server, but when I use 'dig' from client I get the following:

#dig mysite.com
#dig: couldn't get address for '@@': failure

What should I do to configure client machine?

Any answer is appreciated.

Is /etc/resolv.conf configured with a nameserver line that points to your DNS server? If you are using DHCP for that machine, is your DHCP server pushing out that server for your DNS server?

resolv.conf on client is like this:

domain mysite.com
nameservers myserver.mysite.com

"myserver" is dns server in domain mysite.com, I don't have dhcp configured I use following two ip-addresses:
server 192.168.0.1
client 192.168.0.2

If that is really 'nameservers' - try changing it to singular: 'nameserver' which I believe is the correct configuration option.

I have changed to nameserver but with no success. If I type:

#dig @myserver

i get:

; <<>> DiG 9.3.1 <<>> @myserver
; (1 server found)
;; global options; printcmd
;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached

what to do next?

Well - you had 'some' success. Note that you get '1 server found' instead of 'not found'.

Next steps are to check firewall settings, check logs and see why it's timing out trying to reach the DNS server. I assume you can ping it? If so, my next step would be to see if it's getting blocked. (/var/log/messages, /var/log/warn, etc on client and server side)

I haven't set up a DNS server myself, so I'm just telling you what I would do ;-)

Oh - and have you tried the IP address of the server for 'nameserver' in resolv.conf? That's probably what I would try first. (nameserver 192.168.0.1)

In another thread, there was someone having the same issue. Make sure that your SOA records are properly formatted and working.

I have added reverse lookup file which wasn't present and I got the following output after i type:
#dig @myserver


; <<>> DiG 9.3.1 <<>> @myserver
; (1 server found)
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: SERVFAIL, id: 19777
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;. IN NS

;; Query time: 3 msec
;; SERVER: 192.168.0.1#53(192.168.0.1)
;; WHEN: Tue Apr 11 22:59:42 2006
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 17

Bellow is the output of my configuration files, maybe something is wrong written.


file: mysite.com:
$TTL 2d
@ IN SOA myserver.mysite.com. root.myserver.mysite.com. (
2006040902 ; serial
3h ; refresh
1h ; retry
1w ; expiry
1d ) ; minimum

mysite.com. IN NS myserver.mysite.com.
myserver IN A 192.168.0.1
myserver.mysite.com. IN A 192.168.0.1

file: localhost.zone
$TTL 1W
@ IN SOA @ root (
42 ; serial (d. adams)
2D ; refresh
4H ; retry
6W ; expiry
1W ) ; minimum

IN NS @
IN A 127.0.0.1

file: 0.168.192.zone
$TTL 2d
@ IN SOA myserver.mysite.com. root.myserver.mysite.com. (
2006040902 ; serial
3h ; refresh
1h ; retry
1w ; expiry
1d ) ; minimum

IN NS myserver.mysite.com.;

1 IN PTR mysite.com.
file: 127.0.0.zone
$TTL 1W
@ IN SOA localhost. root.localhost. (
42 ; serial (d. adams)
2D ; refresh
4H ; retry
6W ; expiry
1W ) ; minimum

IN NS localhost.
1 IN PTR localhost.