New Domain, DNS Problems...

[Abraham Ingersoll]

Your registrar, directnic.com, hasn't delegated your domain to any other
name server and has no data on it itself. See below, and BTW, you have to
append the dot to almost any 'absolute' nslookup query, including those to
the root servers.

Abe


> server f.root-servers.net.
Default Server:  f.root-servers.net
Address:  192.5.5.241

> jrentertainment.net.
Server:  f.root-servers.net
Address:  192.5.5.241

Name:    jrentertainment.net
Served by:
- NS0.DIRECTNIC.COM
	  208.178.184.56
	  jrentertainment.net
- NS1.DIRECTNIC.COM
	  165.113.62.224
	  jrentertainment.net

> server ns0.directnic.com.
Default Server:  ns0.directnic.com
Address:  208.178.184.56

> jrentertainment.net.
Server:  ns0.directnic.com
Address:  208.178.184.56

*** ns0.directnic.com can't find jrentertainment.net.: No response from
server


On Sun, 30 Apr 2000, Roger A. Prata wrote:

> Hello All:  I have just registered a new domain, and I'm having quite a bit
> of trouble getting the DNS running.  I'm running BIND on Solaris 7.  I
> created all the proper files to serve DNS for this domain, and locally
> things are OK.  When I do an nslookup using a root server, I get the
> following however:
> Here's the result of an NSLOOKUP:
> 
> agony:~ >nslookup
> Default Server:  agony.crcg.edu
> Address:  207.252.32.123
> 
> > server h.root-servers.net
> Default Server:  h.root-servers.net
> Address:  128.63.2.53
> 
> > www.jrentertainment.net
> Server:  h.root-servers.net
> Address:  128.63.2.53
> 
> Name:    www.jrentertainment.net.crcg.edu
> Served by:
> - AGONY.CRCG.EDU
>           207.252.32.123
>           CRCG.EDU
> - PAIN.CRCG.EDU
>           207.252.32.124
>           CRCG.EDU
> 
> I was figuring there must've been a trailing dot missing somewhere, but I
> can't find anything wrong.  Here's my /etc/named.boot:
> 
> agony:/etc >cat named.boot
> ;
> ; BIND data file to boot a primary name server.
> ;
> ; directory where all the data files are stored
> directory       /var/dns/namedb
> ; load the cache data last
> cache           .                       named.ca
> ;
> ; type          domain                  source host/file
> primary         crcg.edu                  hosts.db
> primary         tradenet.to               tradenet.db
> primary         mediasec.com              mediasec.db
> primary         ammo.to                   ammo.db
> primary         bob.to                    bob.db
> primary         odin.to                   odin.db
> primary         jrentertainment.net       jr.db
> primary         94.0.199.in-addr.arpa     hosts.rev
> primary         135.245.205.in-addr.arpa  hosts.rev135
> primary         32.252.207.in-addr.arpa   hosts.rev32
> primary         33.252.207.in-addr.arpa   hosts.rev33
> primary         34.252.207.in-addr.arpa   hosts.rev34
> primary         35.252.207.in-addr.arpa   hosts.rev35
> primary         138.106.199.in-addr.arpa   hosts.rev
> ;
> primary         0.0.127.in-addr.arpa    named.local
> ;
> ;forwarders      192.80.214.224
> ;forwarders     144.228.1.40
> ;forwarders     144.228.8.227
> ;forwarders     199.0.55.3
> [18:20]
> 
> Here's the zone file, jr.db:
> 
> agony:/var/dns/namedb >cat jr.db
> ;
> ; Data file of hostnames in this zone.
> ;
> @       IN      SOA     agony.crcg.edu. postmaster.agony.crcg.edu. (
>                         1999061517      ; Serial
>                         10800   ; Refresh
>                         3000    ; Retry
>                         864000  ; Expire
>                         86400 ) ; Minimum
>         IN      NS      agony.crcg.edu.
> ;       IN      A       207.252.32.124
> jrentertainment.net.                    IN      MX      100     mx.crcg.edu.
> ;
> ; add A record for mail exchanger here
> ;
> mx.crcg.edu.            IN      A               207.252.32.124
> ;
> ; %HOSTS_START% - entries added by bin/make_hosts
> ;
> localhost               IN      A               127.0.0.1
> "hosts-0"               IN      CNAME           localhost
> ;
> www                     IN      A               207.252.32.124
> "hosts-1"               IN      CNAME           www
> ; %HOSTS_END%
> 
> What seems to be the problem?  I'm lost...  Thanks in advance!
> 
> -R
> 
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