(9.1.0) Cannot add authorative NS - "unable to verify existence of nameserver"

[Michael Kjorling]

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My apologizes for that... I realized it just a little bit too late to
correct it. The IP of the DNS server is 213.88.216.209, and here is a
bunch of zones for you to check:

  swedennorwaywolves.com (authorative servers are secondaries to mine)
  golanvwaya.com
  prariedogz.com
  selu.net
  northeastwolf.org (WARNING: currently has other authorative servers!)
  216.88.213.in-addr.arpa (RDNS)

I actually tried upgrading to 9.1.1, but never got it to work - it
kept complaining that it couldn't find my configuration file as
/etc/named.conf, but it was there. Might give it another shot, though.
That is nothing I will do tonight in any case - it's past 2:30 AM
here.


Michael Kjörling


On Thu, 12 Apr 2001 Mark Andrews wrote:

> 	If you want meaningful answers you need to supply
> 	the IP address and the zones it is supposed to serve.
>
> 	Also I would recommend upgrading to 9.1.1.
>
> 	Mark
>
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> > Please apologize me if I am in the wrong place - I am not sure if this
> > is BIND 9-specific or not, but thought there were probably more people
> > here who could answer my question. If I should go for bind9-users
> > instead, please let me know (only once, please...)
> >
> > I am running BIND 9.1.0 with a bunch of zones, of which most are
> > masters - some local, some public. This setup is behind a firewall
> > which blocks incoming traffic, but I have allowed incoming to port 53
> > over both TCP and UDP.  Outgoing traffic is unrestricted. Zone
> > transfers are disallowed in the options{} section of /etc/named.conf
> > (options{...allow-transfer{none;};...};) and then explicitly granted
> > to secondaries in the zone sections.
> >
> > Only one problem - I can query my name server from the outside, and it
> > returns whatever is the answer (provided queries from the outside are
> > allowed on that zone of course), and secondaries can receive ZXFRs.
> > But I cannot add my computer as an authorative name server for any of
> > my domains.  DomainMonger says "unable to add nameserver: unable to
> > verify existence of nameserver (host)", whether I put in the IP
> > address in dot-quad or in-addr.arpa notation, or my DNS name (which
> > resolves through other servers). Register.com provides even less
> > useful information, just saying "could not add name server. It might
> > not be properly configured." - or simply not accepting the IP into the
> > system, silently. There is nothing strange in my logs that I could
> > possibly relate to this.
> >
> > Any suggestions as to what to check or where to read are greatly
> > appreciated! I have tried to get this working for two days by now and
> > have ran out of things to check after going through both the firewall
> > and BIND's configuration three times...
> >
> >
> > Michael Kjörling

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