Hi All,

I am a trying to configure DNS in FC 6 using chrooted-bind . It is
a experimental DNS for
learning purpose. I am finding the following difficulties.

1. There is no configuration file named named.conf in /var/named/
chroot/etc/ as in case of
earlier versions of Linux. The file that is present is
named.rfc1912.zones . I have edited
the file as follows for the domain example.com . The contents is
shown below.

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

};

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

};

The zone file are as follows

A) example.com.zone

$ORIGIN example.com.
$TTL 86400
@ IN SOA iqnetns.example.com. root.example.com. (
42 ; serial (d.
adams)
3H ; refresh
15M ; retry
1W ; expiry
1D ) ; minimum

@ IN NS iqnetns.example.com.
IN A 192.168.0.254

IN AAAA ::1

iqnetns.example.com. IN A
192.168.0.254

B) example.com.local
$TTL 86400
@ IN SOA iqnetns.example.com. root.example.com. (
1997022700 ; Serial
28800 ; Refresh
14400 ; Retry
3600000 ; Expire
86400 ) ; Minimum

IN NS iqnetns.example.com.

254 IN PTR
iqnetns.example.com.

After that I edited /etc/resolv.conf and restarted the named service.
There is no error.
But when I try to resolve
iqnetns.example.com
using dig or host command , name resolution is not taking place.

Please let me know ehere is the problem ?


With thanks

What is in your /etc/resolv.conf?

In /etc/resolv.conf ,
it is the address of the nameserver which I have configured.

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I am trying to do serveral option but still can not
I also looking for help as well, hope we can get helped soon

If your server is it's own nameserver then your /etc/resolv.conf should have only the following inside it:

nameserver 127.0.0.1

Is that what you have?

[QUOTE=ramram29]If your server is it's own nameserver then your /etc/resolv.conf should have only the following inside it:

nameserver 127.0.0.1

Is that what you have?


Ya , I have that and the problem is solved.
The problem is with the permissions associated with configuration files. The zone file should be owned by

root.named.

This I came to know when I check the log file.

I am trying to do serveral option but still can not
I also looking for help as well, hope we can get helped soon

You restart the named service and see the log file. There
you will find if any error is there related to named service
and try to correct it out.
I was facing the same problem. You can look down to know more about the error.

I'm glad you got it figured out. Drop me an Email if you need help.

O.K . Thanks. If needed , I will do that.

hi,
i am configure DNS in fedora core 6 but not able to DIG, suppose i use dig it show the server startus serverfail, and wht is the resason

hi,
i am configure DNS in fedora core 6 but not able to DIG, suppose i use dig it show the server starts serverfail, and wht is the resason

Dns problem , in fedora core 6 i want help

Apparenly your server is not resolving. Do you have the DNS server addresses of your ISP provider? You can use those as your forwarders, rather than having to resolve using the root DNS servers, which takes longer.

Probably your DNS was not configured correctly.You
can check the log file for errors.
Also you can check the syntax of bind configuration files using the following commands.

/usr/sbin/named-checkconf /var/named/chroot/etc/named.rfc1912.zones

/usr/sbin/named-checkzone <domainname> /var/named/chroot/var/named/<zonefile>

Hope that helps...

regards
zaman

> but not able to DIG
Can you post the commands that you ran, and output?