bind9/8 setup

[Barry Margolin]

In article <c2t32n$2omp$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
 verzonnen <verzonnen at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all, 
> 
> I tried setting up bind 9 but it is not getting the slave zones, however
> using the same config using bind 8 it works fine
> 
> In both setups I have to have forwarders configured, otherwise I am not
> able to get anything except the host that I have, I get something about
> lame servers... 
> 
> I have downloaded the latest named.root and ran named-checkconf (version
> 9.2.3) and that seemed to check out
> 
> So I have two questions;
> 1) Why do I seem to need forwarders?? (I would like to be able to turn
> that of)

Maybe you have a firewall that's blocking DNS traffic to any other 
outside address.

> 
> 2) What do I need to add/remove/do in order to get bind 9 working?

When the zone transfers fail, there should be log messages on the slave 
giving the reason.

> 
> TIA 
> ------------------ my named.conf --------------------------------

Which machine is this from, the master or the slave?  It has one zone of 
each type, so it's hard to tell.

> acl "mynet" {
>   192.168.0.0/24; localhost; // my subnet
> };
>  
> options {
>         directory "/etc/namedb";
>         pid-file "/etc/namedb/run/named.pid";
>         allow-recursion { mynet; }; Only allow my network to do recursion 
>         forwarders { 194.109.6.66; };
> };
>  
> // standard root stuff
> zone "." {
>         type hint;
>         file "named.root";
> };
>  
> zone "mydomain.com" {
>   type master;
>   allow-query { any; };
>   notify explicit;{  192.168.0.1; };  allow-transfer { 192.168.1.1; };
>   file "/etc/namedb/db/mydomain.com";
> };
> 
> zone "otherdomain.com" {
>   type slave;
>   allow-query { any; };
>   allow-transfer { 192.168.1.1; };
>   masters { 192.168.1.1; };
>   file "/etc/namedb/db/otherdomain.com";
> };

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Barry Margolin, barmar at alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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