Trying to setup Bind9 DNS first time

[Barry Margolin]

In article <c95lul$1atp$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
 Yogesh Sharma <ysharma at catprosystems.com> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I am trying to setup Bind 9 with chroot on gentoo based server. I have 
> domain purchased from godaddy.com and created ns1.catprosystems.net and 
> ns2.catprosystems.net, currently both are pointing to my home server  IP 
> 66.116.69.208 using godaddy DNS service. I have another domain purchased 
> from  iregistrations.com jthebroker.com. When I am try to set name 
> server for jthebroker.com at iregistrations.com it fails to set 
> ns1.catprosystems.net and ns2.catprosystems.net. I have another domain 
> with godaddy and I tried to set ns1/ns2.catprosystems.net as nameserver 
> and it failed.

Your named.conf is missing:

zone "jthebroker.com" {
  type master;
  file "pri/jthebroker.zone";
};

and similar statements for the other domain.

> 
> my named.conf is:
> 
> options {
>          directory "/var/bind";
>          listen-on-v6 { none; };
>          listen-on { 127.0.0.1; 192.168.101.1; 66.116.69.208; };
>          pid-file "/var/run/named/named.pid";
>          zone-statistics yes;
>          recursion no;
> };
> 
> zone "." IN {
>          type hint;
>          file "named.cache";
> };
> 
> zone "localhost" IN {
>          type master;
>          file "pri/localhost.zone";
>          allow-update { none; };
>          notify no;
> };
> 
> zone "127.in-addr.arpa" IN {
>          type master;
>          file "pri/127.zone";
>          allow-update { none; };
>          notify no;
> };
> 
> I opened firewall port 53. Started named. What else do I need to do so 
> the godaddy / iregistrations can allow me to set 
> ns1/ns2.catprosystems.net as nameserver. My all config files are in 
> /chroot/dns/ directory.
> 
> Thanks
> YSharma

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