findns error (NXDOMAIN) help

[mew]

OK, Thanks so very very much all that have responded to my request for help.
With your help, comments, suggestions, and examples the problem has been
resolved.
Once again the generosity of inet-people has shown through.

Mike White

----- Original Message -----
From: "Terrence Koeman" <root at mediamonks.net>
To: "mew" <mew at mewnet.com>; <bind-users at isc.org>
Sent: Friday, September 07, 2001 9:17 PM
Subject: RE: findns error (NXDOMAIN) help


>
> Hello,
>
> Your nameserver is mewnet.com. (IN      NS mewnet.com.), but you don't
have
> an A record for mewnet.com (@ A 0.0.0.0).
>
> I assuming here that you want your nameserver to be 'ns.mewnet.com'.
>
> OK, you have this:
>
> ns              IN  CNAME mewnet.com.
> www             IN  CNAME mewnet.com.
> kenwww          IN  CNAME mewnet.com.
> mail            IN  CNAME mewnet.com.
>
> All are CNAMES of 'mewnet.com', which has no address!
>
> And the next problem is that mailexchangers (MX) and nameserver (NS)
cannot,
> and must not, be CNAMEs...
>
> I'd do it this way:
> ----------------
> @       IN      SOA     ns.mewnet.com. mew.mewnet.com. (
>                         2001090703      ; serial
>                         8H              ; refresh seconds
>                         2H              ; retry seconds
>                         1W              ; expire
>                         1D )            ; min seconds
> ;
> @               IN      NS ns.mewnet.com.       ; name server
> @               MX      10 mail.mewnet.com.     ; mail server
> ;
> @               A     ip.address.of.mewnet.com
> ns              A     ip.address.of.nameserver ; probably the same as
> mewnet.com
> mail            A     ip.address.of.mailserver ; probably the same as
> mewnet.com
>
> localhost       A     127.0.0.1
> ml2             A     66.92.144.198
> warp1           A     66.92.144.199
> ml1             A     66.92.144.197
> ;
> www             IN  CNAME mewnet.com.
> kenwww          IN  CNAME mewnet.com.
> ;
> ----------------
>
> Your reverse zone seems correct.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Terrence Koeman
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bind-users-bounce at isc.org [mailto:bind-users-bounce at isc.org]On
> Behalf Of mew
> Sent: Saturday, September 08, 2001 02:52
> To: bind-users at isc.org
> Subject: findns error (NXDOMAIN) help
>
>
>
> Hi, I've looked through the archive and doc's and tried various
combinations
> but seem to be making it worse. Can someone please tell me where I'm going
> wrong? Originally I was getting a NXDOMAIN error now I'm also getting a
> CNAME errors as well.
> Thanks in advance for the help.
>
> Log entries after startup:
> Sep  7 20:48:25 ns named[26977]: "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa IN NS" points to a
> CNAME (ns.mewnet.com)
> Sep  7 20:48:40 ns named[26977]: "mewnet.com IN MX" points to a CNAME
> (mail.mewnet.com)
> Sep  7 20:48:44 ns named[26977]: sysquery: findns error (NXDOMAIN) on
> ns.mewnet.com?
>
> Domain name: mewnet.com
> Machine named is running ml1.mewnet.com 66.92.144.197
>
> The zone file that I can't seem to get right:
> @       IN      SOA     mewnet.com. mew.mewnet.com. (
>                         2001090703      ; serial
>                         8H              ; refresh seconds
>                         2H              ; retry seconds
>                         1W              ; expire
>                         1D )            ; min seconds
> ;
>                 IN      NS mewnet.com.          ; name server
>                 MX      10 mail.mewnet.com.     ; mail server
> ;
> ns              IN  CNAME mewnet.com.
> www             IN  CNAME mewnet.com.
> kenwww          IN  CNAME mewnet.com.
> mail            IN  CNAME mewnet.com.
> ;
> localhost       A       127.00.1
> ml2             A        66.92.144.198
> warp1           A        66.92.144.199
> ml1             A        66.92.144.197
> ;
>
> Reverse zone:
> 197.144.92.66.in-addr.arpa. IN SOA      ns.mewnet.com. mew.mewnet.com. (
>                         20010718001     ; serial
>                         8H              ; refresh seconds
>                         2H              ; retry seconds
>                         1W              ; expire
>                         1D )            ; min seconds
> ;
> 197.144.92.66.in-addr.arpa. IN NS ns.mewnet.com.
> ;
> 197.144.92.66.in-addr.arpa. IN PTR ml1.mewnet.com.
>
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