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Quote:

Originally posted by viniosity
I have a dns server (bind) working and everything is ok except one minor problem. When I ping my A records things work but the TLD doesn't respond.

That is, ping mail.foo.com is ok but ping foo.com says unknown host.

Any idea where I went wrong?

I'm surprised anything is working. Along with amfoster's comments, add the following

1) SOA record is referring to a domain name, not a fully qualified domain name. i.e.

Code:

@      IN      SOA    foo.com. root.foo.com.

  should be...

@      IN      SOA    dns.foo.com. root.foo.com.

2) The NS record is pointing to a domain name, not a fully qualified domain name. i.e.

Code:

@      IN      NS      foo.com.

  should be...

@      IN      NS      dns.foo.com.

3) There is no glue record (A) for the NS record. i.e.

Code:

dns IN A 192.168.1.4

Note: Change the IP address above to meet your requirements

4) What the hell is a PTR record doing in a forward zone definition? Localhost should always point to 127.0.0.1

Code:

1.0.0  IN      PTR    localhost.

  should be...

localhost    IN      A      127.0.0.1

5) Your MX record is pointing to a FQDN that does not exist. For simplicaity sake, group the MX record with the NS record and add the @ sign. i.e.

Code:

        IN      MX      10 dns.mail.foo.com  ; mail server

should be... Note the trailing period

@      IN      NS      dns.foo.com.

@      IN      MX      10 mail.foo.com.  ; mail server

6) All the CNAME's <groan> point to a non-existant A record. i.e. the "dns" address record does not exist. Item 3 above should fix this problem.

Code:

#www    CNAME  dns

ftp    CNAME  dns

smtp    CNAME  dns

pop    CNAME  dns

proxy  CNAME  dns

news    CNAME  dns

7) If you want to ping the domain name (foo.com), then an Address record is required. i.e.

Code:

@ IN A 192.168.1.4

Note: Change the above IP address to the address that you want to assign to the domain name. Possibly your web server IP address?