Help with multiple zones

Phusion phusion2k at gmail.com
Tue May 31 19:36:19 UTC 2005


Barry,

That seemed to fix the problems I was having. Thanks.

On 5/31/05, Barry Margolin <barmar at alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> In article <d7gkbd$2t9$1 at sf1.isc.org>, Phusion <phusion2k at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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> > I'm trying to make an internal DNS server using BIND9. We locally host
> > public webservers for multiple domains. I'm setting up the DNS server
> > so internal users can go to the local address instead of going out to
> > the internet to the public address. Like I said we have multple
> > domains which means mutiple zone files, this is where I need help. The
> > multple domains are because we've switched company names. I've
> > included a copy of the zone file for our main domain. I've used this
> > as an example for the other zone files. The DNS server this is on has
> > the address of ns.foo.com.
> >
> > ----------------------------------------
> > db.foo.com =3D3D Main Domain
> > ----------------------------------------
> > $TTL    3600
> >
> > @       IN      SOA     ns.foo.com. root.ns.foo.com.  (
> >                                 20050510        ; Serial
> >                                 3600    ; Refresh
> >                                 900     ; Retry
> >                                 3600000 ; Expire
> >                                 3600 )  ; Minimum
> > @       IN      NS      ns.foo.com.
> >
> > ; Addresses for the canonical names
> > mail.foo.com.   IN      A       192.168.10.11
> > ns.foo.com.      IN      A       192.168.1.34
> >
> > ; Aliases
> > ntp.foo.com.     IN      CNAME   ns.foo.com.
> >
> > I was wondering if the next zone is correct because I copied most of
> > the information except for the addresses at the bottom. I changed the
> > SOA line to say ns.foo.net, instead of ns.foo.com. Also, I changed the
> > NS line to say ns.foo.net. Is this correct? I've followed the same
> > pattern for the other zone files, just changing the address parts at
> > the bottom.
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> You don't have an A record for ns.foo.net, so it's clearly wrong.  If
> all these domains are being hosted on the same server they should all
> have the same server in the SOA and NS records.
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> > ----------------------------------------
> > db.foo.net =3D3D Another domain
> > ----------------------------------------
> > $TTL    3600
> >
> > @       IN      SOA     ns.foo.net. root.ns.foo.net.  (
> >                                 20050510        ; Serial
> >                                 3600    ; Refresh
> >                                 900     ; Retry
> >                                 3600000 ; Expire
> >                                 3600 )  ; Minimum
> > @       IN      NS      ns.foo.net.
> >
> > ; Addresses for the canonical names
> > phusion.foo.net. IN    A        192.168.10.27
> > dev.foo.net.      IN      A       192.168.1.35
> > reports.foo.net. IN      A       192.168.1.35
> >
> > Let me know if this is correct? If not tell me what I should do. Thanks=
.
> >
> > Phusion
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> --
> Barry Margolin, barmar at alum.mit.edu
> Arlington, MA
> *** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me ***
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