Hi

I am a bit of a newbie to the dns thing so I hope somebody can help me with the following. I am trying to set up a dns server for a small test network that doesn’t have internet connection. I just want the server provide ip addresses for the hosts on the local network.


This is my /etc/named.conf file

options {
directory "/var/named";
};

zone "mydomain.tld" IN {
type master;
file "master/mydomain.tld";
};

very minimal I know but shouldn’t this be enough just to serve the internal hosts?

This is the zone file:

$TTL 86400
@ IN SOA ns1.mydomain.tld. hostmaster.mydomain.tld. (
2004100610 ; Serial Number
21600 ; Refresh time
3600 ; Retry time
604800 ; Expire time
86400 ) ; Minimum TTL


IN NS mydomain.tld.
www IN A 10.0.0.2

I then start named no problems - this is the log:

starting BIND 9.2.2-P3 -u named
Oct 7 11:11:21 ns1 named[3901]: using 1 CPU
Oct 7 11:11:21 ns1 named[3901]: loading configuration from '/etc/named.conf'
Oct 7 11:11:21 ns1 named[3901]: listening on IPv4 interface lo, 127.0.0.1#53
Oct 7 11:11:21 ns1 named[3901]: listening on IPv4 interface eth0, 10.0.0.3#53
Oct 7 11:11:21 ns1 named[3901]: command channel listening on 127.0.0.1#953
Oct 7 11:11:21 ns1 named[3901]: command channel listening on ::1#953
Oct 7 11:11:21 ns1 named[3901]: zone mydomain.tld/IN: loaded serial 2004100610
Oct 7 11:11:21 ns1 named[3901]: running

But when I try to dig @ 127.0.0.1 on ns1 I get?
; <<>> DiG 9.2.2-P3 <<>>
;; global options: printcmd
;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached

please help someone...

Try this:

$TTL 86400
@ IN SOA ns1.mydomain.tld. hostmaster.mydomain.tld. (
2004100610 ; Serial Number
21600 ; Refresh time
3600 ; Retry time
604800 ; Expire time
86400 ) ; Minimum TTL


IN NS ns1.mydomain.tld.
www IN A 10.0.0.2
ns1 IN A 10.0.0.3

hmm - no change

I also tried adding:

local host IN A 127.0.0.1

when I try dig @ 127.0.0.1 i get

dig: Couldn't find server ' ': Temporary failure in name resolution

white space makes no difference does it?

ok the problem is kind of (re)solved.

It sems to be a problem with dig as nslookup works and and I can ping on the names from other hosts which is all I need.

are u able to run or not

#dig -x 127.0.0.1

put
localhost A 127.0.0.1
in your zone file

and does your named.local file
look like this,

$TTL 1d
@ IN SOA localhost. root.localhost. (

1997022700 ; Serial
28800 ; Refresh
14400 ; Retry
3600000 ; Expire
86400 ) ; Minimum
IN NS localhost.
1 IN PTR localhost.


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