Hello Everyone!

Here's the situation: I registered a new domain name with godaddy.com only to learn they do not provide a dns server (knew there'd be a catch for 7 bucks). Since i'm in no hurry, i decided to try a free public dns before building up my own dns server to see whats up with it. I'm going with granitecanyon.com since they do not have the 5 domain limit of zoneedit. I'm having difficulties with the Zone File. I've been searching for a decent tutorial on them for a few days but am only finding the very basics. And of course the soa.help news group isn't working either.


Below is the post for granitecanyon.com:
(SOA portion is in a differant section of their online form)

#error message results if i only put 2 DNS servers or exclude ; EXTREF
mydomain.com. IN NS ns1.granitecanyon.com. ; EXTREF
mydomain.com. IN NS ns2.granitecanyon.com. ; EXTREF
mydomain.com. IN NS ns3.granitecanyon.com. ; EXTREF

#Responsible person - hmm...not sure if i qualify for that yet
mydomain.com. IN RP MyName.mydomain.com. mydomain.com.

#my ip. sort of.
mydomain.com. IN A 66.77.88.188

#receive error without the localhost
localhost.mydomain.com. IN A 127.0.0.1

#some CNAME for the fun of it. Don't see it being necessary
www.mydomain.com. IN CNAME mydomain.com.
ftp.mydomain.com. IN CNAME mydomain.com.

#for my mail apparently
mydomain.com. IN MX 10 mail.mydomain.com.


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Here's My error messages:
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Go back and fix these errors:

nslint: missing "ptr": localhost.mydomain.com. -> 127.0.0.1
nslint: missing "ptr": mydomain.com. -> 66.77.88.188

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So there you have it.

I've tried including a reverse-entry

188.88.77.66.in-addr.arpa. IN PTR mydomain.com.
1.0.0.127.in-addr-arpa. IN PTR localhost.mydomain.com.

but it gives an additional error message.


Additional Info: I host 6 other domains on my server but had always registered with register.com hence no need for the DNS server

I have 2 current suspicions regarding my troubles:

1. Missing a reverse-dns entry
2. Problems with other domain name sharing IP
3. I'm a dumbA$$ (oh, that makes 3)

Any thoughts on how i might resolve this problem? I have 5 static IP's and am planning on building my own primary and secondary DNS servers in awhile but would rather get this figured out first.

Thanks in Advance!

i have fedora 1. i use this computer for tests. i have a nameserver to test qmail. here is my named config files:
@ means the name that given in named.conf. in my named.conf it is maxut.com

[root@linux chroot]# cat /var/named/chroot/maxut.com.zone
$TTL 86400
$ORIGIN @
@ 1D IN SOA @ maxut.com. (
42 ; serial (d. adams)
3H ; refresh
15M ; retry
1W ; expiry
1D ) ; minimum

1D IN NS @
1D IN A 192.168.0.249
@ 1D IN MX 10 mail
mail IN CNAME @
www IN CNAME @

[root@linux chroot]# cat /var/named/chroot/0.168.192.zone
$TTL 86400
@ IN SOA maxut.com. dnsadmin.maxut.com. (
1997022700 ; Serial
28800 ; Refresh
14400 ; Retry
3600000 ; Expire
86400 ) ; Minimum
IN NS maxut.com.

249 IN PTR maxut.com.

[root@linux chroot]# cat /var/named/chroot/etc/named.conf
zone "maxut.com" IN {
type master;
file "maxut.com.zone";
allow-update { none; };
};

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

i hope these helps u.

Thanks for the post. I finally got it to work by adding:

1.0.0.127 IN PTR localhost.geeknout.com.

and

my.ip.backwards IN PTR mydomain.com.

I could swear that i did that at least 30 times in the last 2 days but i must have been typing an error.


Thanks for the help!