Bind 8 - No default server

[James]

>> I just finished a new attempt at installing bind 8 and after running
>> into some problems I had to re-enable bind 4.9.5 so my customers could
>> have access to the Internet.
>> 
>> What happened after I installed it is this, customers were able to log
>> in, but they could not receive web sites.  I thought this might have
>> been related to the fact that the domain that they authenticate to not
>> being properly set up after the install.  So, I made the named.conf file
>> and added the zones to it as is necessary and made a few changes to the
>> zone files including the $ttl option.  I then rebooted the server and
>> kept having the same problem.  Then on a whim I decided to change the
>> tcp\ip settings for the dial up customers and specified the DNS servers
>> under Windows.  That fixed the problem outright, the only problem with
>> this is that I can't change some 500 people tcp\ip settings!
> 
> 
> Aren't you using DHCP?

Unfortunatley not, the system I inherited is not using DHCP.  There are 
46 modems in use and each has their own ip address. 

>> Does
>> anyone have any idea what might be causing this problem?
> 
> 
> What do your logs say? BIND 4 was very permissive; BIND 8 is less so. So
> maybe you have something illegal in your zonefiles that BIND 8 is choking
> on. The logs should reveal any problems.

You are right some of the zones were choking on the db files however 
none of them would work and 8 out of 10 loaded.

>> Second problem I'm having is that after I make the switch to v8 and
>> change over the zone files my domains quit working.  I even redid the db
>> files on a few of them based on the the example but that had no effect.
>> 
>> Last question, can someone give me a hand with the script that is
>> supposed to change over the zone and named.boot files for me?  I can't
>> find anything that will run it.
> 
> 
> You don't have Perl *or* something Bourne-shell compatible? What kind of
> platform is this? VMS?

Running it on NT.  Can't seem to find anything that will interpret this 
perl file. 

> Just out of curiosity, if you haven't been able to convert your named.boot
> into a named.conf, what are you using for a named.conf? And if you haven't
> even created a named.conf, why would you expect your BIND 8 nameserver to
> run at all?

I made my own out of the examples that came with BIND.

Thanks for your help.

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