Can't resolve local domain

[Kevin Darcy]

MikeDawg wrote:

>Hi, this is sort of a newbish type question, and I can't figure out
>what is going on with my local domain.  I'm also not 100% sure if this
>problem is related to my Bind DNS setup, or whether it is a problem
>with how I got my windows networking setup, hopefully someone will be
>able to tell me one or the other.
>
>I have bind running on my linux box, and I have setup a local domain
>"xxxx.sys" in bind.
>
>In bind, I have to zone files setup.
>
>One is for 1.168.192.in-addr.arpa, in the named.conf file showing:
>
>zone "1.168.192.in-addr.arpa" IN {
>        type master;
>        file "primary/1.168.192.in-addr.arpa";
>        allow-update {
>                192.168.1.0/24;
>                };
>        allow-query {
>                192.168.1.0/24;
>                127.0.0.0/8;
>                localhost;
>                };
>        notify no;
>};
>
>One is for the xxxx.sys domain, setup in the named.conf file showing:
>
>zone "xxxx.sys" IN {
>        type master;
>        file "primary/xxxx.sys";
>        allow-update {
>                192.168.1.0/24;
>                };
>        allow-query {
>                192.168.1.0/24;
>                localhost;
>                127.0.0.0/8;
>                };
>};
>
>The contents of 1.168.192.in-addr.arpa is the following:
>
>$TTL 3D
>@                       IN      SOA     ns.xxxx.sys.
>hostmaster.xxxx.sys. (
>                        2006041901
>                        8H
>                        2H
>                        4W
>                        1D )
>;
>xxxx.sys.            IN      MX      10 mail.xxxx.sys.    ;Mail Server
>router.xxxx.sys.     IN      A       192.168.1.1    ;DD-WRT
>slacker2.xxxx.sys.   IN      A       192.168.1.9    ;Slacker2
>melement.xxxx.sys.   IN      A       192.168.1.8    ;Melissa
>bad-ath64.xxxx.sys.  IN      A       192.168.1.2    ;Bad-Ath64
>slacker.xxxx.sys.    IN      A       192.168.1.7    ;Slacker
>firewall.xxxx.sys.   IN      CNAME   router.xxxx.sys.     ;Firewall and
>Router
>ns.xxxx.sys.         IN      CNAME   slacker2.xxxx.sys.   ;Name Server
>mail.xxxx.sys.       IN      CNAME   slacker2.xxxx.sys.   ;Mail Server
>ns1.xxxx.sys.        IN      CNAME   slacker2.xxxx.sys.   ;Name Server
>1
>www.xxxx.sys.        IN      CNAME   slacker2.xxxx.sys.   ;www
>bad-ath.xxxx.sys.    IN      CNAME   melement.xxxx.sys.   ;melement's
>old name
>xxxx.sys.            IN      NS      ns.xxxx.sys.         ;Name Server
>xxxx.sys.            IN      NS      ns1.xxxx.sys.        ;Name Server
>1
>
>-- END CONFIGURATION FILES --
>
>When I try to ping mail.xxxx.sys from my windows machine (192.168.1.2 &
>192.168.1.8) it cannot find the IP address.
>
>I can run nslookup using 192.168.1.9 as the server, and successfully do
>an IP lookup on mail.xxxx.sys
>
>I definetely have the NS server for the network card set to
>192.168.1.9, verified using ipconfig /all and looking at the list of
>DNS servers allowed for the NIC.  When I try pinging various servers
>from the linux machine, that is also running dns (192.168.1.9) I can
>ping any server on the domain. . . such as bad-ath64.xxxx.sys and it
>finds the IP address just fine.
>
>Bind starts up just fine, loads the proper xxxx.sys file, and the
>correct serial number for the zone that I set.
>
>What am I doing wrong here?  Is this a problem with bind? Or is this a
>problem with my windows networking configuration?
>  
>
 From what you've described so far -- works from the Linux box, but not 
the Windows box -- it sounds like a problem with the Windows box.  But 
if you want further confirmation, turn on query logging or run a sniffer 
to verify that the query packets aren't even reaching the nameserver.

                                                                         
                                 - Kevin