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need help with bind9 config

I have read the docs and googled for hours, but the bind config is very confusing and everyone seems to do it a little differently. I think that bind is resolving names outside of my domain since my resolv.conf only has 127.0.0.1 and I can still access the internet. But when I run dig stephen.homeip.net (my domain), I get SERVFAIL, id: 62285 error. Here are my config files:
named.conf

Code:

options {

        directory "/var/cache/bind";

        auth-nxdomain no;    # conform to RFC1035

        listen-on-v6 { any; };

};



zone "." {

        type hint;

        file "/etc/bind/db.root";

};



zone "localhost" {

        type master;

        file "/etc/bind/db.local";

};



zone "127.in-addr.arpa" {

        type master;

        file "/etc/bind/db.127";

};



zone "0.in-addr.arpa" {

        type master;

        file "/etc/bind/db.0";

};



zone "255.in-addr.arpa" {

        type master;

        file "/etc/bind/db.255";

};



zone "stephen.homeip.net" {

        type master;

        file "/etc/bind/stephen.homeip.net";

};

stephen.homeip.net

Code:

$TTL        604800

@        IN        SOA        stephen.homeip.net. webmaster.stephen.homeip.net. (

                              3                ; Serial

                          28800                ; Refresh

                          7200                ; Retry

                        604800                ; Expire

                        604800        ; Negative Cache TTL

                        )

;

IN                NS      ns1.stephen.homeip.net.        ;

IN                NS        ns2.stephen.homeip.net.                ;

IN                MX        10 mail.stephen.homeip.net.  ;

;

stephen.homeip.net. IN A 74.140.104.208

ns1 IN A 74.140.104.208

ns2 IN A 74.140.104.208

mail IN A 74.140.104.208

www IN A 74.140.104.208

Here is what I get when I do dig stephen.homeip.net...

Code:

; <<>> DiG 9.3.2-P1 <<>> stephen.homeip.net

;; global options:  printcmd

;; Got answer:

;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: SERVFAIL, id: 12187

;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0



;; QUESTION SECTION:

;stephen.homeip.net.        IN          A



;; Query time: 1 msec

;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1)

;; WHEN: Fri Apr 13 13:28:12 2007

;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 36

You don't have your NS records setup right.

Also there is no point in having 2 NS records if they point to the same IP.

Try this.

Code:

$TTL    604800

@      IN      SOA    stephen.homeip.net. webmaster.stephen.homeip.net. (

                              3        ; Serial

                          28800        ; Refresh

                          7200        ; Retry

                        604800        ; Expire

                        604800        ; Negative Cache TTL

                        )

;

stephen.homeip.net.    IN              NS      ns1.stephen.homeip.net. ;

;IN              NS      ns1.stephen.homeip.net.        ;

;IN            NS      ns2.stephen.homeip.net.        ;

IN              MX        10 mail.stephen.homeip.net.  ;

;

stephen.homeip.net. IN A 74.140.104.208

ns1 IN A 74.140.104.208

mail IN A 74.140.104.208

www IN A 74.140.104.208

I see where you went wrong..

What you had for the NS record would have also worked but you cant start the line with with "IN"

Code:

IN NS ns1.stephen.homeip.net.;

Will not work. However put a tab before the "IN"

Code:

IN NS ns1.stephen.homeip.net.;

And the zone should load.

It works! Thanks fur. That config is almost as bad as sendmail. Now I just need to get my reverse zone and figure out this PTR thing.