Setting up caching-only server on BIND 9.2?

AJ Fisher aj.fisher at boeing.com
Thu Jan 15 18:47:03 UTC 2004


I am trying to configure DNS caching-only server for an HP-UX 11.00 server
with BIND 9.20.

Here is the content of the following files:

named.conf:

# Name: named.conf

options {

directory "/etc";

};

#

# Local Domains

#

zone "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa" {

type master;

file "db.127.0.0";

};

#

# Cache Records

#

zone "." {

type hint;

file "db.cache";

};

#

db.127.0.0:

; ;=========================================================================

; Name: /etc/db.127.0.0

;=========================================================================

;

;

; DOMAIN: 0.0.127.in-addr.arpa.

;

0.0.127.in-addr.arpa. IN SOA hedgehog.ca.boeing.com. (

96021700 ; Serial /*day versions*/

7200 ; Refresh /*2 hrs*/

900 ; Retry /*15 minutes*/

864000 ; Expire /*10 days*/

999999999) ; Minimum TTL /*infinite*/

;

0.0.127.in-addr.arpa. IN NS hedgehog.ca.boeing.com.

;

1.0.0.127.in-addr.arpa. IN PTR localhost.

; ;=========================================================================

; Name: db.cache

;=========================================================================

;

;

. 99999999 IN NS venus.boeing.com.

99999999 IN NS hera.boeing.com.

99999999 IN NS hermes.boeing.com.

99999999 IN NS jupiter.boeing.com.

;

;

venus.boeing.com. 99999999 IN A xxx.42.5.51

hera.boeing.com. 99999999 IN A xxx.52.1.11

hermes.boeing.com. 99999999 IN A xxx.240.5.11

jupiter.boeing.com. 99999999 IN A xxx.203.5.11

;

(I have xed out the first octet on purpose for this e-mail)

Here is the output from the syslog.log file for named:

Jan 13 17:26:58 hedgehog named [4116]: starting BIND 9.2.0

Jan 13 17:26:58 hedgehog named [4116]: using 1 CPU

Jan 13 17:26:58 hedgehog named [4116]: loading configuration from
'/etc/named.conf'

Jan 13 17:26:58 hedgehog named [4116]: no IPv6 interfaces found

Jan 13 17:26:58 hedgehog named [4116]: listening on IPv4 interface lan0,
130.42.107.71#53 Jan 13 17:26:58 hedgehog named[4116]: listening on IPv4
interface lo0, 127.0.0.1#53

Jan 13 17:26:58 hedgehog named[4116]: none:0: open: /etc/rndc.key: file not
found

Jan 13 17:26:58 hedgehog named [4116]: couldn't add command channel
127.0.0.1#953: file not found

Jan 13 17:26:58 hedgehog named [4116]: no source of entropy found

Jan 13 17:26:58 hedgehog named [4116]: dns_rdata_fromtext: db.127.0.0:19:
near eol: unexpected end of input

Jan 13 17:26:58 hedgehog named [4116]: zone 0.0.127.in-addr.arpa/IN: loading
master file db.127.0.0:

Jan 13 17:26:58 hedgehog named [4116]: running



Here is the error message I get when I do an nslookup:

*** Can't find server name for address 127.0.0.1: Server failed

I don't have rndc.key set up. I am also wondering why I am seeing
"unexpected end of input" messages in the syslog.log file. Any help or
insight you can provide would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks!






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