ISP setup..?

[Barry Margolin]

In article <Pine.GSO.4.10.9906280009190.4805-100000 at uhunix2>,
Brian McSheehy  <bmcsheeh at hawaii.edu> wrote:
>Hello everyone, I am currently trying to setup BIND for an ISP, we are
>using RedHat 5.2 and BIND version 8.2-6 . This is the first time I have
>ever attempted to setup BIND and was wondering if you could tell me if
>these files look right to you? BTW could you cc your response to
>bmcsheeh at hawaii.edu , I don't think I am geting all the messages from the
>mailing list. Thanks.  

What kind of ISP can you be if you don't even have someone on staff with
BIND experience?

>Here is the master file for the domain DIGITAL-M.NET
>
>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>@                1D IN  SOA  hawaii.digital-m.net.   root.digital-m.net. (
>                          1999062601      ; serial, todays date + todays
>serial #
>                          3H              ; refresh, seconds
>                          1H              ; retry, seconds
>                          1W              ; expire, seconds
>                          1D )            ; minimum, seconds
>               		1D IN   NS      hawaii.digital-m.net.     ; Primary DNS
>               		1D IN   NS      honolulu.digital-m.net.   ; Secondary DNS

There are no A records for hawaii or honolulu.

>               		1D IN   MX      5 mail.digital-m.net.     ; Primary Mail
>Exchanger

MX records must point to A records, not CNAME records.  So this should be:

                                1D IN   MX      5 digital-m.net.

>               		1D IN   MX      10 honolulu.digital-m.net ; Secondary
>Mail Exchanger

There's no A record for honolulu.

>
>localhost      		1D IN   A       127.0.0.1
>digital-m.net. 		1D IN   A       216.64.172.2
>gateway-100mbps-gst-hnl 1D IN 	A       216.64.172.1  
>
>
>ftp            		1D IN   CNAME   digital-m.net.
>mail           		1D IN   CNAME   digital-m.net
>news           		1D IN   CNAME   204.94.112.34
>
>------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>**gateway-100mbps-gst-hnl is our router..
>
>
>
>Here is the contents for the reverse lookup file "216.64.172"
>
>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>@                     1D IN      SOA    hawaii.digital-m.net.
>root.digital-m.net. (
>                                  199906256       ; Serial
>                                  28800   ; Refresh
>                                  7200    ; Retry
>                                  604800  ; Expire
>                                  86400)  ; Minimum TTL
>                      1D IN NS       hawaii.digital-m.net.
>                      1D IN NS       honolulu.digital-m.net.
>  ;
>  ;Servers
>  ;
>  1.172.64.216        1D IN  PTR     gateway-100mbps-us-hnl.digital-m.net

You forgot the "." at the end of that name.

>  2.172.64.216        1D IN  PTR     hawaii.digital-m.net.
>  3.172.64.216        1D IN  PTR     honolulu.digital-m.net.

These will be interpreted as

1.172.64.216.172.64.216.in-addr.arpa.   ...
2.172.64.216.172.64.216.in-addr.arpa.   ...
3.172.64.216.172.64.216.in-addr.arpa.   ...

To abbreviate them, you should just write "1", "2", and "3".

-- 
Barry Margolin, barmar at bbnplanet.com
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