Now your network is configure for the range of 192.168.11.x then how will you get internet on 192.168.0.x?
contact your admin and get a free ip in the range of 192.168.11.x

oh k k...haha...i am really a fool it seems...

ok i did that,now what should i do?and please don't mind..

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...server-906142/

follow this..every step is mentioned

well thanks a lot Mr.Deepak...ll never forget ur help....thanksonce again..


Now after doing all these how to i know whether my system is acting as a dns server or not?and can i configure mail server in it as well?

wow thanks once again..

now if i want it to do forward and reverse mapping for a a particular website then i can add that website isnt it?or will it not work?

by adding a website do you mean registering your domain?

I would like to see the output of these commands

well i meant hosting a website/domain..

for hosting a website you need apache server

and if everything is working fine I would suggest you to mark the thread as solved

well in named.rfc1912.zones,i have it as given below so should i delete everythng given below and do as u said or keep that first one..

zone "." IN {
type hint;
file "named.ca";
};

zone "localdomain" IN {
type master;
file "localdomain.zone";
allow-update { none; };
};

zone "localhost" IN {
type master;
file "localhost.zone";
allow-update { none; };
};

zone "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa" IN {
type master;
file "named.local";
allow-update { none; };
};

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
{
type master;
file "named.ip6.local";
allow-update { none; };
};

zone "255.in-addr.arpa" IN {
type master;
file "named.broadcast";
allow-update { none; };
};

zone "0.in-addr.arpa" IN {
type master;
file "named.zero";
allow-update { none; };
};


Please don't mind and ur help would be highly appreciated..

I am surprised to see you are still stucked at named.rfc1912.zones

I thought you might have configured DNS

No need to erase any thing just make a new entry

well i couldnt do it yesterday,didnt gettime thats y...but your guidance is helping me a lot..

In example.com.zone we should it shows as:
$TTL 86400
@ IN SOA @ root (
42 ; serial (d. adams)
3H ; refresh
15M ; retry
1W ; expiry
1D ) ; minimum

IN NS @
IN A 127.0.0.1
IN AAAA ::1

and u have asked me to do as :
#vi example.com.zone
$TTL 86400
@ IN SOA server.example.com. root.estuate.com. (
52 ; serial
3H ; refresh
15M ; retry
1W ; expiry
1D ) ; minimum

IN NS server.example.com.
IN MX 10 server.example.com.

server IN A 192.168.0.233
www IN A 192.168.0.233
ftp IN A 192.168.0.233
mail IN CNAME mail.example.com

so in that should it be sarh.example.com or as above?n can u tell me what is that 10 for and in should i remove that loopback address also?

Please don't mind me asking u again n again..

well Mr.Deepak when i did service named restart finally it gave the following error:

Error in named configuration:
/etc/named.rfc1912.zones:10: zone '.': already exists previous definition: /etc/named.root.hints:12


what could be the possible reason?

I would like to have a look at your named.conf and named.rfc1912.zones

and please use "code" i.e. "#" available at the editor of linuxquestions
it makes easier to understand

this is the output of named.conf:

options {
listen-on port 53 { 127.0.0.1;192.168.0.1; };
listen-on-v6 port 53 { ::1; };
directory "/var/named";
dump-file "/var/named/data/cache_dump.db";
statistics-file "/var/named/data/named_stats.txt";
memstatistics-file "/var/named/data/named_mem_stats.txt";

// Those options should be used carefully because they disable port
// randomization
// query-source port 53;
// query-source-v6 port 53;

allow-query { localhost; 192.168.0.0/24;};
allow-query-cache { localhost; 192.168.0.0/24;};
};
logging {
channel default_debug {
file "data/named.run";
severity dynamic;
};
};
view localhost_resolver {
match-clients { localhost; 192.168.0.0/24;};
match-destinations { localhost; 192.168.0.0/24;};
recursion yes;
include "/etc/named.rfc1912.zones";
};OUTPUT OF named.rfc1912.zones:

// named.rfc1912.zones:
//
// Provided by Red Hat caching-nameserver package
//
// ISC BIND named zone configuration for zones recommended by
// RFC 1912 section 4.1 : localhost TLDs and address zones
//
// See /usr/share/doc/bind*/sample/ for example named configuration files.
//
zone "." IN {
type hint;
file "named.ca";
};

zone "localdomain" IN {
type master;
file "localdomain.zone";
allow-update { none; };
};

zone "localhost" IN {
type master;
file "localhost.zone";
allow-update { none; };
};

zone "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa" IN {
type master;
file "named.local";
allow-update { none; };
};

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
{
type master;
file "named.ip6.local";
allow-update { none; };
};

zone "255.in-addr.arpa" IN {
type master;
file "named.broadcast";
allow-update { none; };
};

zone "0.in-addr.arpa" IN {
type master;
file "named.zero";
allow-update { none; };
};

zone "example.com" IN {
type master;
file "example.com.zone";
allow-update {none;};
};

zone "0.168.192.in-addr.arpa" IN {
type master;
file "192.168.0.zone";
allow-update{none;};
};