Installed programs conflict with DNS

johnhalbert · 04-03-2012, 02:01 AM

So my server was working just fine as of yesterday, but today for some reason DNS is no longer working. I have no idea why and the only change that was made to the server was installing system-config-date and its' dependencies. I'm not familiar with most of these but could any of them be interfering with DNS?

system-config-date.noarch 0:1.8.12-5.el5.centos
GConf2.i386 0:2.14.0-9.el5
ORBit2.i386 0:2.14.3-5.el5
alsa-lib.i386 0:1.0.17-1.el5
atk.i386 0:1.12.2-1.fc6
audiofile.i386 1:0.2.6-5
avahi.i386 0:0.6.16-10.el5_6
avahi-glib.i386 0:0.6.16-10.el5_6
bitstream-vera-fonts.noarch 0:1.10-7
cairo.i386 0:1.2.4-5.el5
cryptsetup-luks.i386 0:1.0.3-8.el5
dbus-glib.i386 0:0.73-10.el5_5
dbus-python.i386 0:0.70-9.el5_4
desktop-file-utils.i386 0:0.10-7
docbook-dtds.noarch 0:1.0-30.1
esound.i386 1:0.2.36-4
fontconfig.i386 0:2.4.1-7.el5
gamin.i386 0:0.1.7-10.el5
gnome-doc-utils.noarch 0:0.8.0-2.fc6
gnome-keyring.i386 0:0.6.0-1.fc6
gnome-mime-data.i386 0:2.4.2-3.1
gnome-mount.i386 0:0.5-3.el5
gnome-python2.i386 0:2.16.0-1.fc6
gnome-python2-bonobo.i386 0:2.16.0-1.fc6
gnome-python2-canvas.i386 0:2.16.0-1.fc6
gnome-python2-gnomevfs.i386 0:2.16.0-1.fc6
gnome-vfs2.i386 0:2.16.2-8.el5
gtk2.i386 0:2.10.4-21.el5_7.7
hal.i386 0:0.5.8.1-62.el5
hicolor-icon-theme.noarch 0:0.9-2.1
hwdata.noarch 0:0.213.26-1.el5
kbd.i386 0:1.12-21.el5
libICE.i386 0:1.0.1-2.1
libIDL.i386 0:0.8.7-1.fc6
libSM.i386 0:1.0.1-3.1
libXcursor.i386 0:1.1.7-1.2
libXext.i386 0:1.0.1-2.1
libXfixes.i386 0:4.0.1-2.1
libXft.i386 0:2.1.10-1.1
libXi.i386 0:1.0.1-4.el5_4
libXinerama.i386 0:1.0.1-2.1
libXrandr.i386 0:1.1.1-3.3
libXrender.i386 0:0.9.1-3.1
libXres.i386 0:1.0.1-3.1
libXt.i386 0:1.0.2-3.2.el5
libart_lgpl.i386 0:2.3.17-4
libbonobo.i386 0:2.16.0-1.1.el5_5.1
libbonoboui.i386 0:2.16.0-1.fc6
libdaemon.i386 0:0.10-5.el5
libglade2.i386 0:2.6.0-2
libgnome.i386 0:2.16.0-6.el5
libgnomecanvas.i386 0:2.14.0-4.1
libgnomeui.i386 0:2.16.0-5.el5
libnotify.i386 0:0.4.2-6.el5
libvolume_id.i386 0:095-14.27.el5_7.1
libwnck.i386 0:2.16.0-4.fc6
notification-daemon.i386 0:0.3.5-9.el5
ntp.i386 0:4.2.2p1-15.el5.centos.1
openjade.i386 0:1.3.2-27
opensp.i386 0:1.5.2-4
pango.i386 0:1.14.9-8.el5.centos.3
pciutils.i386 0:3.1.7-5.el5
pm-utils.i386 0:0.99.3-10.el5.centos
pycairo.i386 0:1.2.0-1.1
pygobject2.i386 0:2.12.1-5.el5
pygtk2.i386 0:2.10.1-12.el5
pygtk2-libglade.i386 0:2.10.1-12.el5
pyorbit.i386 0:2.14.1-3.el5
python-numeric.i386 0:23.7-2.2.2.el5_6.1
rhpl.i386 0:0.194.1-2
scrollkeeper.i386 0:0.3.14-9.el5
sgml-common.noarch 0:0.6.3-18
shared-mime-info.i386 0:0.19-5.el5
startup-notification.i386 0:0.8-4.1
wireless-tools.i386 1:28-2.el5
xml-common.noarch 0:0.6.3-18
xulrunner.i386 0:10.0.3-1.el5_8
yelp.i386 0:2.16.0-29.el5_8

deep27ak · 04-03-2012, 04:48 AM

Hello johnhalbert

Kindly provide complete and relevant info which can help us understand and troubleshoot you problem. Just by saying your DNS is not working we can't start guessing about the error. So please be specific about the problem you are facing in your DNS server

post your log messages

Code:

#cat /var/log/messages

tell us about your distro

johnhalbert · 05-06-2012, 06:21 PM

BIND is giving me some trouble as I just set up a new DNS record for a domain I purchased a day or so ago. I've gone through the setup many times to be sure, but this domain is set up exactly as the others - both in the named.conf and in the .hosts file that I've set up.

When checking at intodns.com there are multiple problems, including warnings about lame servers and a non-existent SOA record. When trying to get DNS information with the host command it says that the servers are unreachable. I have three nameservers, one master and two slaves, and the slaves are not updating apparently as there is no file for this domain in my slaves folder.

I'm very confused why this one would not work as others did. Any suggestions where I can start to troubleshoot this? I'm fairly new to DNS so I'm not sure which direction to go to fix this problem.

I should add this is on a centos 5 server.

es0teric · 05-06-2012, 08:19 PM

Do you see that bind is listening on the right port on your servers? Any bind config files you could provide would be helpful as well.

johnhalbert · 05-06-2012, 09:35 PM

I'm assuming that bind is listening on port 53, all other domains configured on the nameserver are working properly - i.e. I can use the host command to find their records and intodns.com returns everything as OK.

Master named.conf

Code:

options {
        directory "/etc/";
        pid-file "/var/run/named/named.pid";
        recursion no;
        };

logging {
        channel custom {
                file "/var/log/named/named.log";
                print-time yes;
                print-category yes;
                };
        category config         { custom; };
        category notify         { custom; };
        category dnssec         { custom; };
        category general        { custom; };
        category security       { custom; };
        category xfer-out       { custom; };    # zone transfers
        category lame-servers   { custom; };
        };

zone "domain1.com" {
        type master;
        file "/var/named/domain1.com.hosts";
        allow-transfer {
                xxx.xx.xxx.xxx;
                xxx.xx.xxx.xxx;
                xx.x.xx.xxx;
                };
        };

zone "domain2.com" {
        type master;
        file "/var/named/domain2.com.hosts";
        allow-transfer {
                xxx.xx.xxx.xxx;
                xxx.xx.xxx.xxx;
                xx.x.xx.xxx;
                };
        };

zone "domain3.com" {
        type master;
        file "/var/named/domain3.com.hosts";
        allow-transfer {
                xxx.xx.xxx.xxx;
                xxx.xx.xxx.xxx;
                xx.x.xx.xxx;
                };
        };

zone "domain4.com" {
        type master;
        file "/var/named/domain4.com.hosts";
        allow-transfer {
                xxx.xx.xxx.xxx;
                xxx.xx.xxx.xxx;
                xx.x.xx.xxx;
                };
        };

Slave named.conf

Code:

options {
        directory "/etc";
        pid-file "/var/run/named/named.pid";
        recursion no;
        };

zone "domain1.com" {
        type slave;
        file "/var/named/slaves/domain1.com.hosts";
        masters {
                xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx;
                xxx.xxx.xx.xx;
                };
        };

zone "domain2.com" {
        type slave;
        file "/var/named/slaves/domain2.com.hosts";
        masters {
                xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx;
                xxx.xxx.xx.xx;
                };
        };

zone "domain3.com" {
        type slave;
        file "/var/named/slaves/domain3.com.hosts";
        masters {
                xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx;
                xxx.xxx.xx.xx;
                };
        };

zone "domain4.com" {
        type slave;
        file "/var/named/slaves/domain4.com.hosts";
        masters {
                xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx;
                xxx.xxx.xx.xx;
                };
        };

Domain4 is the one that's just been added & isn't working properly.

colucix · 05-12-2012, 09:00 AM

Two different threads on the same topic have been merged. Please, keep the discussion in one place (here) to avoid confusion and to receive a more suitable and effective help. Thank you.