setting up bind 8.2.3

[Andrew R Reid]

Thank you Barry for you response.  Following is the db.cpplating.com.au
file.  When I was running Red Hat Linux, the messages would be displayed
in the system log if anything was wrong.  The Debian distro I am now
running doesn't seem to say anything on on named start stop or cache
clearing.  I tried to find another file in /var/log/ that might have named
messages in it but to no avail.  I might try to find out if I can make the
logging more verbose.

;
; BIND data file for local network interface
; /etc/bind/db.cpplating.com.au
;
@	IN	SOA	cpplating.com.au. root.cpplating.com.au. (
		       20010510		; Serial
			 604800		; Refresh
			  86400		; Retry
			2419200		; Expire
			 604800 )	; Negative Cache TTL
;
;	Name Servers
;
	IN	NS	cpserver.cpplating.com.au.	
;
;	MX Records
;
	IN	MX	mail.cpplating.com.au.
;
;	Canonical Names
;
cpserver.cpplating.com.au.	IN	A	192.168.1.1
gold.cpplating.com.au.		IN	A	192.168.1.2
chrome.cpplating.com.au.	IN	A	192.168.1.4
nickle.cpplating.com.au.	IN	A	192.168.1.5
copper.cpplating.com.au.	IN	A	192.168.1.6
titanium.cpplating.com.au	IN	A	192.168.1.10

Andrew Reid			C.P.Plating
Technical Sales Manager		P O Box 1335	   --------- /---    /---\
C. P. Plating Pty Ltd		222a Macathur Ave   ------- /       /    /
Mob:    +61 4 1474 9943		EAGLE FARM 4009      ----- /       /----/
Direct: +61 7 3260 3260		AUSTRALIA	      --- /       /
e-mail: andrew at cpplating.com.au	Phn: +61 7 3268 3044   - |---- o /   o
				Fax: +61 7 3268 3433


On Mon, 13 May 2002, Barry Margolin wrote:

> In article <abn87k$f6c2$1 at isrv4.isc.org>,
> Andrew R Reid  <andrew at cpplating.com.au> wrote:
> >I am having problems with setting up my dns server.
> >
> >My mail server is currently delegated to my isp's nameserver, so all I
> >want is for the server to respond to queries to retrieve external
> >addresses and also to respond apropriately for internal addresses.
> >
> >My internal addressing scheme is a class C adress range 192.168.1.x
> >
> >I can do internal reverse lookups ie nslookup 192.168.1.2 returns
> >gold.cpplating.com.au.
> >However internal lookups fail ie unknown host/domain
> >gold.cpplating.com.au.
> >
> >I can't work out what is wrong with my configuration files.
> >
> >Could someone please shed some light on this for me.
> 
> Your db.cpplating.com.au file didn't come through -- apparently your
> posting software saw the ".au" suffix when you were attaching it, and
> assumed it was an audio file rather than a text file.
> 
> Have you checked your log file to see if there are any complaints about
> this domain?
> 
> -- 
> Barry Margolin, barmar at genuity.net
> Genuity, Woburn, MA
> *** DON'T SEND TECHNICAL QUESTIONS DIRECTLY TO ME, post them to newsgroups.
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> 
>