BIND rndc problem

[Mike Kinzie]

Kevin,
No. In the SOA it is the domain address of the company that is colocating my
machine.
I have for my nameservers:
ns1.mydomain.ca
lancelot.myserviceprovider.com

what happens when I use "dig any mydomain.ca" ths ANSWER SECTION list first
of all

ns1.myserviceprovider.com  hostmaster.myserviceprovider.com

then
mydomain.ca  21600 IN NS ns1.myserviceprovider.com
mydomain.ca  21600 IN NS mydomain.ca (without the ns1)
mydomain.ca  21600 IN MX 10 smtp-fe.myserviceprovider.com
mydomain.ca  21600 IN MX xxx.xx.xxx.xx (my IP)

I do not see how ns1 becomes part of myserviceprovider's domain when it
isn't

My zone data file for mydomain.ca is mainly:

                            IN     SOA     ns1.mydomain.ca
hostmaster.mydomain.ca

          2003080900 etc

;nameservers
                            IN    NS    ns1.mydomain.ca.
                            IN    NS    lancelot.myservicprovider.com.
mydomain.ca.       IN    MX    10 mail.mydomain.ca.
www                    IN    CNAME ns1.mydomain.ca

mydomain.ca.        IN    A    xxx.xx.xxx.xxx  (my address)
ns1                        IN    A  xxx.xx.xxx.xxx  (my address)
localhost                IN    A    127.0.0.1

All the syntax of the files are ok.

I do not seee wher things get mixed up.
Can the problem be with the company who is colocatting the machine and who
has assigned an
address to me.

Thanks

Mike

"Kevin Darcy" <kcd at daimlerchrysler.com> wrote in message
news:bh1cck$292d$1 at sf1.isc.org...
> Mike Kinzie wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >  I "think" my problem is that the SOA when I " dig any mydomain" brings
up
> > my IP's or secondary name server's address rather than mine ie: my.ip's.
> > domain.   hostmaster.my.ip's.domain.
>
> I'm not sure what you mean by this. Do you literally mean there's an IP
address
> there? If so, then apparently you accidentally used IP addresses in your
> SOA record instead of names.
>
> > I can ping my domain from a web browser site but not when I am logged on
via
> > a terminal
>
> I asked you earlier whether your machine was configured to resolve names
via
> DNS. I don't think you've answered that yet.
>
> > I have gone over and over the named.conf and zone files but have not
found
> > the problem.
> > the syntax via named-checkzone comes up fine.
> >
> > Could this be the main reason with the "localhost" referring to my ip's
> > address rather than my machine's?
>
> Seems more and more like your machine is not configured to use DNS for
name
> resolution.
>
> See
http://www.europe.redhat.com/documentation/man-pages/man5/nsswitch.5.php3
>
>
> - Kevin
>
> > "Kevin Darcy" <kcd at daimlerchrysler.com> wrote in message
> > news:bgufgb$1rjg$1 at sf1.isc.org...
> > > Mike Kinzie wrote:
> > >
> > > > hello,
> > > > I have Redhat 8 with BIND 9.2.1
> > > > rndc has stopped working and I cannot ping my domain or 127.0.01
> > > > I have checked my /va/log/messages and found the following with
regard
> > to
> > > > the named server startup on a reboot:
> > > >
> > > > -couldn't find rndc key for use with command channel: 127.0.0.1#953
> > > > I have the following in named.conf:
> > > >
> > > > controls {
> > > >         inet 127.0.0.1 allow { localhost; } keys { rndc_key; };
> > > > };
> > > >
> > > > all the zone files loaded okay.
> > > >
> > > > I do not understand the command channel and how to correct the rndc
> > failure.
> > >
> > > The BIND 9 documentation tells how to set up rndc. Basically you need
to
> > > generate a key.
> > >
> > > The failure to set up an rndc channel shouldn't have any direct
> > relationship to
> > > your inability to resolve names, though. Although it's encouraging
that
> > you are
> > > looking in the log file for error messages (so many people forget that
> > step) do
> > > you have any other information about that problem beyond "I cannot
ping my
> > > domain or 127.0.01" and "all the zone files loaded okay"? Have you
tried
> > > querying the nameserver with a DNS lookup tool like "dig"? Is your
machine
> > even
> > > configured to use DNS for name resolution? If you turn on query
logging,
> > do you
> > > see the query attempts being logged? Does a "netstat" show anything
> > listening
> > > on port 53?
> > >
> > >
> > > - Kevin
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
>
>