Wits end

jonr at destar.net jonr at destar.net
Thu Apr 17 22:36:16 UTC 2008


Quoting Bob Hoffman <bob at bobhoffman.com>:

> Okay, so I tried offering up to 50 dollars an hour to help me set up a
> simple nameserver, but no takers.
>
> I really need some help. My first time doing it.
>
> At this point I would just be happy to be able to do a dig or nslookup to a
> website like google.
>
> Another issue is the named-checkconf and named-checkzone do not seem to like
> how centos has chrooted the files and so far I have been unable to
> successfully run these tools.
>
> This is my named.conf right now and causes no errors in the message logs.
> I get a timed out, no servers could be reached when doing dig google.com
> I have etc/resolv.conf saying search localhost on one line and nameserver
> xx.xx.xx.xx on the next.
> My host name is localhost, full is localhost.localdomian.
> AAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!
>
> controls {}; shuts off rndc as I have no network
>
> options {
> 	directory "/var/named/";
> 	allow-recursion { xx.xx.xx/24; localhost; }; the xx is the first
> three parts of the ip address of my server.
> }; this option only lets my server use recursion on my nameserver and not
> everyone else in the world.
>
>
> zone "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa" {
> 	type master;
> 	file "127.0.0.zone"; this file causes no errors
> 	allow-update { none; };
> 	allow-transfer { none; };
> };
>
>
> zone "." {
> 	type hint;
> 	file "root.hint";  it finds it and has all the root servers
> };
>
> zone "localhost" IN {
> 	type master;
> 	file "localhost.zone"; seems okay
> 	allow-update { none; };
> 	allow-transfer { none; };
> };
>

Is the named daemon even starting up? When you start named what do  
your logs say? What errors are you seeing?

Jon





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