Single machine VPS

Lyle Giese lyle at lcrcomputer.net
Mon Oct 17 14:16:56 UTC 2011


On 10/17/2011 5:59 AM, Nico Aragón wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm new to Bind. My previous registrar (or was it the hosting
> provider?) was so kind to manage DNS for me. But now I'm required to
> configure a DNS server in the very same VPS that hosts the HTTP and
> mail server.
>
> I've managed to set it running and (apparently) working after reading
> some quick tutorials and a good deal of trial/error. A little issue
> persists: I'd like the domain to be reached through HTTP as
> "nicoaragon.com", but it only works as "www.nicoaragon.com". The
> examples are all about configuration with several machines, so I did
> my best to adapt them. But I'm stuck now and a little afraid to touch
> and lose what already works.
>
> I'm using bind9 in ubuntu 11.04 server. A forwarder is set in the
> options file. The rest of the configuration is like this:
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> named.conf.local:
>
> zone "nicoaragon.com" {
>      type master;
>      file "/etc/bind/zones/nicoaragon.com.zone";
> };
>
> zone "24.105.46.in-addr.arpa" {
>      type master;
>      notify no;
>      file "/etc/bind/zones/rev.24.105.46.in-addr.arpa";
> };
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> nicoaragon.com.zone:
>
> $TTL 604800
>
> nicoaragon.com. IN SOA www.nicoaragon.com. root.nicoaragon.com. (
>      2007031001
>      28800
>      3600
>      604800
>      38400
> )
>
> nicoaragon.com. IN NS www.nicoaragon.com.
> IN A 46.105.24.194
> www.nicoaragon.com. IN MX 10 www.nicoaragon.com.
> nicoaragon.com. IN MX 10 www.nicoaragon.com.
>
> www IN A 46.105.24.194
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> rev.24.105.46.in-addr.arpa
>
> $TTL 604800
> @ IN SOA nicoaragon.com. root.nicoaragon.com. (
>      2001180909 ; serial number
>      3h         ; refresh
>      15m        ; update retry
>      3w         ; expiry
>      3h )       ; minimum
>
> @ IN NS www.
> 194 IN PTR www.nicoaragon.com.
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
Also make sure your webserver will serve up your website when asking for 
http://www.nicoaragon.com and for http://nicoaragon.com

Looks like your zone file is fine.  But to check it, run

dig axfr nicoaragon.com

and make sure the output matches your expectations.

Lyle




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