I've been trying to get Bind8 to work for several days now. This is my first attempt at any sort of DNS setup. Here's a bit of general info about my setup:

SDSL from G4 communications

216.177.19.106 - 108 for static IP addresses.

I am using a m0nowall right now with WAN of 216.177.19.106 - 108 is setup with NAT to get to the internal IP address of my server. If you go to http://216.177.19.108 you'll see that its forwarding through just fine.

Here's the zone file:

$ORIGIN net.
seanspc 14440 IN SOA ns1.seanspc.net. sean.seanspc.net (
2005091505
14400
7200
360000
86400 )

14400 IN MX 10 mail.seanspc.net.
14400 IN NS ns1.seanspc.net
14400 IN NS ns1.seanspc.net
seanspc.net. 14400 IN A 10.0.1.1

$ORGIN seanspc.net.
ns1.seanspc.net. 14400 IN NS 216.177.19.108.seanspc.net.
mail 14400 IN CNAME seanspc.net.
www 14400 IN A 216.177.19.108



I apply the settings (Restart BIND), then login to a UNIX server over at work. When I do an nslookup for seanspc.net or www.seanspc.net I just get a request timed out/non existent domain error

I have the name server for my domain set as ns1.seanspc.net and ns2.seanspc.net - I made sure that the IP addresses were correct and everything

Is tehre something that I might be missing here?

Thanks!
-Equin

Look at THIS ; may be of some help.

The root servers are pointing to 216.177.19.108 for seanspc.net but the DNS server at 216.177.19.108 is not answering at this time. Is port 53 firewalled?

$ dig @a.gtld-servers.net www.seanspc.net

; <<>> DiG 9.3.1 <<>> @a.gtld-servers.net www.seanspc.net
; (2 servers found)
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 52422
;; flags: qr rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 2

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;www.seanspc.net. IN A

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
seanspc.net. 172800 IN NS ns1.seanspc.net.
seanspc.net. 172800 IN NS ns2.seanspc.net.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
ns1.seanspc.net. 172800 IN A 216.177.19.108
ns2.seanspc.net. 172800 IN A 216.177.19.108

;; Query time: 190 msec
;; SERVER: 192.5.6.30#53(192.5.6.30)
;; WHEN: Sun Sep 18 02:03:07 2005
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 101

$ dig @216.177.19.108 www.seanspc.net

; <<>> DiG 9.3.1 <<>> @216.177.19.108 www.seanspc.net
; (1 server found)
;; global options: printcmd
;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached


Reverse lookup for 216.177.19.108 is not delegated. You should talk to your ISP about getting reverse-lookup for your netblock delegated to 216.177.19.108, particularly if you intend to run a mail server as many mail server admins block 'no rDNS' connections as an antispam measure.

$ dig @a.root-servers.net 216.177.19.108

; <<>> DiG 9.3.1 <<>> @a.root-servers.net 216.177.19.108
; (1 server found)
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 39629
;; flags: qr aa rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;216.177.19.108. IN A

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
. 86400 IN SOA A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. NSTLD.VERISIGN-GRS.COM. 2005091701 1800 900 604800 86400

;; Query time: 185 msec
;; SERVER: 198.41.0.4#53(198.41.0.4)
;; WHEN: Sun Sep 18 02:06:56 2005
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 107