Problem getting "forwarders" section in named.conf.options to work

[Andy Shellam]

Hi Adam,

I cannot help with the forwarders, but I think the reason you're not 
being able to ping "sendoutcards.com" is because it's not defined in 
your zone file for this reason: a blank "name" field (the first field of 
a record) tells Bind to use the previous record's name again.

So here:

nas1        NS  nas1.sendoutcards.com.

            A   206.71.90.5
www         A   206.71.90.5


what you're telling Bind is that "nas1" has an NS record of 
nas1.sendoutcards.com., and an A record of 206.71.90.5.
Try either putting "A 206.71.90.5" after your MX record, or I believe 
you can use a "." to indicate the root of the zone (e.g. ". A 206.71.90.5")

Hope this helps one of your queries,

Andy

Adam Olsen wrote:
> I'm having a bit of trouble with a few things in my configuration.  I
> am trying to set up DNS for the sendoutcards.com domain, including
> mail.
>
> Here is my zone file:
>
> $TTL    604800
> @           IN      SOA ns2.sendoutcards.com. root.sendoutcards.com. (
>            20080532     ; Serial
>                          604800         ; Refresh
>                           86400         ; Retry
>                         2419200         ; Expire
>                          604800 )       ; Negative Cache TTL
> ;
>
>             MX  10  mail.sendoutcards.com.
>             NS  ns2.sendoutcards.com.
> nas1        NS  nas1.sendoutcards.com.
>
>             A   206.71.90.5
> www         A   206.71.90.5
> mail        A   206.71.90.6
> swetesoc    A   10.1.1.3
> web4        A   10.1.1.11
> carl        A   10.1.1.7
> fs2         A   10.1.1.18
> masterdb    A   10.1.1.12
> slavedb     A   10.1.1.13
> nappy       A   10.1.1.4
> nas1        A   10.1.1.24
>
> This is on the secondary dns server.  With this setup, I can ping
> mail.sendoutcards.com, www.sendoutcards.com, but not plain
> 'sendoutcards.com'.  Also, if I set up a remote machine to use this
> DNS server in /etc/resolv.conf, that machine cannot ping 'google.com'
> (the log on the DNS server says 'query (cache) denied'.
>
> I tried setting up forwarders {};  in named.conf.options to my ISP
> assigned DNS servers, but if I do that, my zone file seems to get
> ignored entirely.
>
> I know I'm probably doing this wrong, but there are so many examples
> on the net with so many different formats to use in the zone file.
> Any help here would be appreciated.
>
> --
> Adam Olsen
> SendOutCards.com
> http://www.vimtips.org
> http://last.fm/user/synic
>
>
>