Adding a new zone

[Jacob Laack]

I thought maybe it was because the requests were forwarded so I added a =
"forwarders {};" to the named.conf file but it still doesn't work.  Here =
is me asking my master dns server where these hostnames (www.myalegent.org =
& myalegent.org) point to followed by www.myalegent.com:

dns1{root}/usr/local/named# dig @dns1 www.myalegent.org=20

; <<>> DiG 9.2.3 <<>> @dns1 www.myalegent.org=20
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: SERVFAIL, id: 23320
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;www.myalegent.org.             IN      A

;; Query time: 5 msec
;; SERVER: 160.xx.xx.xx#53(dns1)
;; WHEN: Fri Sep 16 14:48:04 2005
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 35

dns1{root}/usr/local/named# dig @dns1 myalegent.org

; <<>> DiG 9.2.3 <<>> @dns1 myalegent.org
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: SERVFAIL, id: 44593
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;myalegent.org.                 IN      A

;; Query time: 5 msec
;; SERVER: 160.xx.xx.xx#53(dns1)
;; WHEN: Fri Sep 16 14:48:09 2005
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 31

dns1{root}/usr/local/named# dig @dns1 www.myalegent.com=20

; <<>> DiG 9.2.3 <<>> @dns1 www.myalegent.com=20
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 25768
;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 3, ADDITIONAL: 3

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;www.myalegent.com.             IN      A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
www.myalegent.com.      86400   IN      A       160.xx.xx.xx

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
myalegent.com.          86400   IN      NS      dns2.myalegent.com.
myalegent.com.          86400   IN      NS      littlewill.teamalegent.com.=

myalegent.com.          86400   IN      NS      dns1.myalegent.com.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
dns1.myalegent.com.     86400   IN      A       160.xx.xx.xx
dns2.myalegent.com.     86400   IN      A       160.xx.xx.xx
littlewill.teamalegent.com. 86400 IN    A       160.xx.xx.xx

;; Query time: 6 msec
;; SERVER: 160.xx.xx.xx#53(dns1)
;; WHEN: Fri Sep 16 14:49:59 2005
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 174


-Jake

Jake Laack
Alegent Health, OSE
402-717-1146

>>> Kevin Darcy <kcd at daimlerchrysler.com> 9/16/2005 2:37:41 PM >>>
Offhand that looks fine. Were there any errors in your log when named=20
tried to load the zone? What is the exact error you're getting when you=20
query myalegent.org (it might help if you use a real lookup tool like=20
dig instead of nslookup)? Is it NXDOMAIN or SERVFAIL or something else?=20
Are you sure you're querying one of the nameservers defined as master=20
for the zone?

- Kevin

Jacob Laack wrote:

>My company's users found out that the .org version of our intranet site =
=3D
>has been bought and is pointing to some nasty website.  We already own =
and =3D
>use the .com domain for our intranet portal.  I would like to create a =
new =3D
>zone for the .org domain on our internal dns servers to point to the .com =
=3D
>domain.  This way we can prevent them from going to the nasty site.
>
>I've inherited this DNS system (currently running BIND 9.2.3 on two aix =
=3D
>servers) and haven't had to add a new zone before.  I duplicated the zone =
=3D
>entry in named.conf, copied the db.myalegent.com file to db.myalegent.org,=
 =3D
>deleted all the entries, edited all the .com's to .org's, and ran "rdnc =
=3D
>reload".  Unfortunately, nslookup myalegent.org doesn't work.  What am I =
=3D
>doing incorrectly?  The new db.myalegent.org is here:
>
>$ORIGIN .
>$TTL 86400      ; 1 day
>myalegent.org           IN SOA  DNS1.myalegent.org. jlaack.alegent.org. (
>                                651        ; serial
>                                10800      ; refresh (3 hours)
>                                3600       ; retry (1 hour)
>                                604800     ; expire (1 week)
>                                86400      ; minimum (1 day)
>                                )
>                        NS      dns1.myalegent.org.
>                        NS      dns2.myalegent.org.
>                        NS      littlewill.teamalegent.com.
>                        A       160.xx.xx.xx
>$ORIGIN myalegent.org.
>dns1            A       160.xx.xx.xx
>dns2            A       160.xx.xx.xx
>www             A       160.xx.xx.xx
>
>The relevant section of named.conf is here:
>
>zone "myalegent.org" {
>        type master;
>        file "db.myalegent.org";
>
>     allow-update {
>          key dns1-dns1 ;
>          key dns1-dns2 ;
>          key dnsuser-key ;
>        };
>
>     allow-transfer {
>          160.xx.xx.xx;
>          160.xx.xx.xx;
>     };
>};
>
>
>Thanks.
>
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> =20
>