Internal DNS resolution look up fails

Bit Twister BitTwister at mouse-potato.com
Mon Dec 31 16:37:46 UTC 2007


First time DNS newbie here. After 11 hours of howto/documents/template
reading and attempts, I still can not resolve my node's name or ip.

$ hostname
wb.home.invalid

$ host wb.home.invalid
Host wb.home.invalid not found: 2(SERVFAIL)

$ host 192.168.1.130
Host 130.1.168.192.in-addr.arpa not found: 2(SERVFAIL)

Does that mean I have to create separate files for each ip on my LAN?
Thought my   zone "1.168.192.in-addr.arpa"  would keep me out of that
ditch. :-(



Clean install of bind on Mandriva Linux 2008

$ named -v
BIND 9.4.1-P1


$ grep hosts: /etc/nsswitch.conf 
hosts:          files dns nis

$ grep nameserver /etc/resolv.conf
nameserver 192.168.1.130

$ head -5 /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1               localhost.localdomain localhost
192.168.1.11            fw.home.invalid fw
192.168.1.12            wb1.home.invalid wb1
192.168.1.130           wb.home.invalid wb
192.168.1.131           beta.home.invalid beta



Snippet from named.conf


zone "home.invalid" IN {
	type master;
	file "reverse/home.zone";
	allow-update { none; };
};

zone "1.168.192.in-addr.arpa" IN {
	type master;
	file "reverse/home.reversed";
	allow-update { none; };
};



$ cat /var/lib/named/var/named/reverse/home.zone
$ORIGIN .
$TTL 86400      ; 1 day
home.invalid    IN SOA  wb.home.invalid. (
                                1997022700 ; serial
                                86400      ; refresh (1 day)
                                21600      ; retry (6 hours)
                                3600000    ; expire (5 weeks 6 days 16 hours)
                                3600       ; minimum (1 hour)
                                )
                        NS      wb.home.invalid.
$ORIGIN home.invalid.
$TTL 86400      ; 1 day

localhost               A       127.0.0.1
fw              A       192.168.1.11
wb1             A       192.168.1.12
wb              A       192.168.1.130
beta            A       192.168.1.131


$ cat /var/lib/named/var/named/reverse/home.reversed
$ORIGIN .
$TTL 86400      ; 1 day
1.168.192.in-addr.arpa  IN SOA  wb.home.invalid. (
                                1997022700 ; serial
                                28800      ; refresh (8 hours)
                                14400      ; retry (4 hours)
                                3600000    ; expire (5 weeks 6 days 16 hours)
                                86400      ; minimum (1 day)
                                )
                        NS      wb.home.invalid.
$ORIGIN 1.168.192.in-addr.arpa.
$TTL 3600       ; 1 hour

11              PTR     fw.home.invalid.
12              PTR     wb1.home.invalid.
130             PTR     wb.home.invalid.
131             PTR     beta.home.invalid.



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