trying to setup dns zones

LKWPeter · 12-01-2004, 02:32 PM

Hi,
Im currently trying to setup zones for my local domain with bind 9.2.4 on Debian Sarge.
I setup zone files and edited named.conf.local, then restarted named, but I cannot lookup my hosts.

Code:

BruteForce $ nslookup Nihilanth
Server:         192.168.6.1
Address:        192.168.6.1#53

** server can't find Nihilanth: NXDOMAIN

For servers outside my network, domain lookup works well.

This is my named.conf.local (included by named.conf) :

Code:

zone "mydomain.ath.cx" {
        type master;
        file "db.mydomain.ath.cx";
};

zone "6.168.192.in-addr.arpa" {
        type master;
        file "db.192.168.6";
};

The forward zone file:

Code:

$TTL    604800
@ IN    SOA     Gateway.mydomain.ath.cx. root.mydomain.ath.cx. (
                              1         ; Serial
                         604800         ; Refresh
                          86400         ; Retry
                        2419200         ; Expire
                         604800 )       ; Negative Cache TTL
;
@       IN      NS      Gateway.mydomain.ath.cx.
Gateway IN A 192.168.6.1
Nihilanth IN A 192.168.6.2
BruteForce IN A 192.168.6.3

and my reverse zone file:

Code:

$TTL    604800
6.168.192.in-addr.arpa.       IN      SOA Gateway.mydomain.ath.cx. root.mydomain.ath.cx. (
                              1         ; Serial
                         604800         ; Refresh
                          86400         ; Retry
                        2419200         ; Expire
                         604800 )       ; Negative Cache TTL
;
@       IN      NS      Gateway
1 IN PTR Gateway
2 IN PTR Nihilanth
3 IN PTR BruteForce

Please note, that I replaced my domainname with "mydomain".
named-checkconf and named-checkzone do not report any errors.
I would really appreciate any help.

LKWPeter · 12-01-2004, 03:05 PM

As always, one finds the solution right after posting the problem on the net.
The zone files were not found, because I did not specify an absolute path for them...
I have been working on this half the day, working through different tutorials and beginning from scratch multiple times.