DNS Help on FreeBSD 4.3

[Mark_Andrews at isc.org]

> I'm having trouble getting my dns to recognize, i'm not sure what i've done
> wrong. I've included my zone files and my named.conf. I can ping
> ns1.heatfc.com and ns2 but I cannot ping heatfc.com
> 
	Firstly leading white space is significate in a zone file.
	" IN SOA ..." is interpreted differently to "IN SOA ...",
	in the later case IN is seen as a name not the class.

	Secondly you need to specify the name of the first record.  Use
	@ for the current origin (defaults to zone name).  Subsequent
	records can skip the name and it will be inherited from the
	previous record.
	e.g. "@ IN SOA ..."

	Thirdly absolute domainnames in zone files need a final period
	otherwise the current origin is appended.
	e.g. " IN NS ns1.heatfc.com."
	
	Fourthly check the log files when the nameserver starts.  These
	zone files would have caused errors to be reported.

	Now with this all in mind go through each record and correct them
	appropriately.

	Mark
> 
> ns1# less heatfc.com
> IN SOA ns1.heatfc.com mikej.satx.rr.com. (
> 2 ; Serial
> 86400 ; refresh
> 7200 ; retry
> 864000 ; expire
> 86400 ) ; minimum
> 
> 
> 
> 
> heatfc            NS      ns1.heatfc.com
> heatfc            NS      ns2.heatfc.com
> www.heatfc.com    CNAME   heatfc.com
> 
> ns1               IN A    64.123.85.200
> spectrum          IN A    64.123.85.35
> ns2               IN A    64.123.85.201
> www               IN A    64.123.85.35
> heatfc.com        IN A    64.123.85.35
> 
> IN                NS      ns1.heatfc.com
> IN                NS      ns2.heatfc.com
> 
> IN                NS      ns1
> IN                NS      ns2
> 
> IN                MX 50   mail.heatfc.com
> IN                MX 100  mail.swbell.net
> 
> 
> 
> 
> (Named.Conf)
> 
> zone "heatfc.com" {
>         type master;
>         file "heatfc.com";
> 
> };
> 
> zone "85.123.64.in-addr.arpa" {
>         type master;
>         file "heatfc-reverse";
> 
> };
> 
> zone "0.0.127.IN-ADDR.ARPA" {
>         type master;
>         file "localhost.rev";
> };
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ns1# less heatfc-reverse
> IN SOA ns1.heatfc.com. mikej.satx.rr.com. (
>                 2001082101 ; Serial
>                 86400      ; refresh
>                 7200       ; retry
>                 8640000    ; expire
>                 86400 )    ; minimum
> 
>                 IN NS      ns1.heatfc.com
>                 IN NS      ns2.heatfc.com
> 
> 1               IN PTR     ns1.heatfc.com.com
> 2               IN PTR     ns2.heatfc.com.com
> 
> 
> 
> 200.85.123.64.in-addr.arpa.  in PTR ns1.heatfc.com
> 
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Mark Andrews, Internet Software Consortium
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