[Newbie] BIND8 Configuration

Mon Jan 27 23:42:27 UTC 2003

Silvio Wangler wrote:

>Hello Kevin,
>
>Kevin Darcy wrote:
>  
>
>>Well, you're trying to load the "universe" zone from a file called 
>>"localhost.zone", which probably doesn't have the appropriate zone data 
>>in it. If this is true, then there should have been all sorts of ugly 
>>log messages about it -- you should really get into the habit of 
>>watching your logs whenever your change anything.
>>Also, you have no "domain" directive in the /etc/resolv.conf so I'm not 
>>sure why you thought "sun" without any domain on it would work...
>>    
>>
>
>Thanks a lot for your support. You were totally right. This copy and 
>paste habbit can really cause some fataly errors.
>
>I think now its working (forward and reverse lookup). But why do I still 
>get these error log messages.
>
>Jan 27 23:42:31 sun named[3680]: starting (/etc/named.conf).  named 
>8.2.4-REL Wed Nov 13 11:36:10 UTC 2002 
>root at D251:/usr/src/packages/BUILD/bind8-8.2.4/bin/named
>Jan 27 23:42:31 sun named[3680]: master zone "localhost" (IN) loaded 
>(serial 42)
>Jan 27 23:42:31 sun named[3680]: master zone "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa" (IN) 
>loaded (serial 1)
>Jan 27 23:42:31 sun named[3680]: hint zone "" (IN) loaded (serial 0)
>Jan 27 23:42:31 sun named[3680]: master zone "10.10.10.in-addr.arpa" 
>(IN) loaded (serial 42)
>Jan 27 23:42:31 sun named[3680]: master zone "universe" (IN) loaded 
>(serial 1)
>Jan 27 23:42:31 sun named[3680]: listening on [127.0.0.1].53 (lo)
>Jan 27 23:42:31 sun named[3680]: listening on [10.10.10.1].53 (eth1)
>Jan 27 23:42:31 sun named[3680]: Forwarding source address is [0.0.0.0].1036
>Jan 27 23:42:31 sun named[3681]: group = named
>Jan 27 23:42:31 sun named[3681]: user = named
>Jan 27 23:42:31 sun named[3681]: Ready to answer queries.
>Jan 27 23:42:31 sun named[3681]: sysquery: no addrs found for root NS 
>(F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET)
>
>I have updated the file /var/named/root.hint like that
>
> > cp root.hint root.hint~
> > dig @A.ROOT-SERVER.NET > root.hint
>
>and this is the result..
>
>[/var/named/root.hint]
>; <<>> DiG 8.3 <<>> @A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET
>; (1 server found)
>;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch
>;; got answer:
>;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 6
>;; flags: qr aa rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 13, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 13
>;; QUERY SECTION:
>;;      ., type = NS, class = IN
>
>;; ANSWER SECTION:
>...                       6D IN NS        A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
>...                       6D IN NS        H.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
>...                       6D IN NS        C.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
>...                       6D IN NS        G.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
>...                       6D IN NS        F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
>...                       6D IN NS        B.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
>...                       6D IN NS        J.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
>...                       6D IN NS        K.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
>...                       6D IN NS        L.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
>...                       6D IN NS        M.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
>...                       6D IN NS        I.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
>...                       6D IN NS        E.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
>...                       6D IN NS        D.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
>
>;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
>A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.     5w6d16h IN A    198.41.0.4
>H.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.     5w6d16h IN A    128.63.2.53
>C.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.     5w6d16h IN A    192.33.4.12
>G.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.     5w6d16h IN A    192.112.36.4
>F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.     5w6d16h IN A    192.5.5.241
>B.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.     5w6d16h IN A    128.9.0.107
>J.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.     5w6d16h IN A    192.58.128.30
>K.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.     5w6d16h IN A    193.0.14.129
>L.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.     5w6d16h IN A    198.32.64.12
>M.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.     5w6d16h IN A    202.12.27.33
>I.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.     5w6d16h IN A    192.36.148.17
>E.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.     5w6d16h IN A    192.203.230.10
>D.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.     5w6d16h IN A    128.8.10.90
>
>;; Total query time: 112 msec
>;; FROM: sun to SERVER: A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET  198.41.0.4
>;; WHEN: Mon Jan 27 22:29:24 2003
>;; MSG SIZE  sent: 17  rcvd: 436
>
I'm not sure what would cause that error, since obviously you can get 
the IP address of f.root-servers.net on a root NS query. BIND 8.2.4 is 
pretty old though: maybe this is due to a bug that's been fixed for a 
while. You could just ignore the log message. It would be interesting to 
see if it's always complaining about the *same* root nameserver...

                                                    - Kevin