Hi There,
Let me start by saying I have been very impressed with the expertise in this forum. It has helped a lot.
I am running Redhat 6.2 with Apache and DNS and I am very close to the ideal system I want.
I have tested the DNS and it Works great (If you are connected to the same Lan and have it as your only name server).
To test I used ONLY that DNS I can get other peoples sites as well as the ones I configured for use in Apache.
After I thought I had the box totally configured I went ahead and registered a domain name to use for the name server. I registered "jubrosworld.com" and of course they required the IP to my server - no problem.
I then pointed my domains to that nameserver : ns1.jubrosworld.com
(I know I need a secondary - so I just pointed it to some big local ISPs for now)
I waited for everything to propagate then I started testing. I was unable to pull up any of the sites that I had pointed ns1.jubrosworld.com
THE PART THAT CONFUSES ME is that I have a zone configured for a domain that is called
www.softwarejedi.com and FOR SOME REASON comes up on screen served out by my Apache if I enter "ns1.jubrosworld.com" into the BROWSER and not by its regular URL. This is Bizarre .
To recap:
www.softwarejedi.com points to ns1.jubrosworld.com as its name server
ns1.jubrosworld.com points to the IP of my DNS.
The DNS on the internal Network is 192.168.1.3 (once it is through the router - the router causes no problems)
The search order was hosts then DNS and I think this may be how the softwarejedi site got served up because in my host file I also had (my other domains are set to resolve through the DNS and this one) :
192.168.1.3
www.softwarejedi.com
certainly the router sends the DNS request to 192.168.1.3 but the entry in the Browser was :
http://ns1.jubrosworld.com and that should bring up nothing.
At any rate the DNS does not seem to be searched and in this case the host file was somehow used to send me that page. There is no other way for me to have gotten that page because I was EXTERNAL the Network.
I know I am close and I feel it may have somethng todo with my resolv.conf file which has been untouched during the whole process.
Essentially I am trying to configure my DNS so that it works when requests are made to ns1.jubrosworld.com What should my resolv.conf file look like?
Note that I have running tests from different networks entirely to make sure I was EXTERNAL and please note that I have it working internally where the DNS will serve out at least 6 differnt sites/zones that I have configured for Apache. The DNS will also go find/cache other domains you ask for such as
www.google.com.
The focal point Is that I am unable to resolve anything externally except for that bizarre connectivity to the my DNS by entering the name of my nameserver into the browser.
I AM CLOSE - Please help me fill this gap in my knowledge.
thanks in advance
fed007
This tells me that there is external connectivity to my DNS but also that the resolving is somehow buggered up
