BIND and DNS issues

[alexroche]

Hi

I'm trying to set up DNS for my site downwithbettman.com. I registered the two DNS servers with my registrar as ns.downwithbettman.com pointing to 216.166.69.13 and ns2.downwithbettman.com pointing to 216.166.69.16.

Anyways, even when I ping the domain when I have my DNS server set to the server, I get no response. Here is how I have the named file configured:

zone "." {
type hint;
file "named.root";
};

zone "0.0.127.IN-ADDR.ARPA" {
type master;
file "localhost.rev";
};



zone "downwithbettman.com" {
type master;
file "downwithbettman.zone";
allow-transfer {
216.69.166.16;
};
};

zone "downwithbettman.com" {
type slave;
file "s/downwithbettman.com";
masters {
216.69.166.13;
};
};


And the zone file:

$TTL 86400
$ORIGIN downwithbettman.com.
@ IN SOA ns.downwithbettman.com. downwithbettman.gmail.com. (
2005032400 ;serial
28800 ;refresh
14400 ;retry delay
86400 ;expire
21600 ;default_ttl
)

@ IN NS ns.downwithbettman.com.
IN NS ns2.downwithbettman.com.

@ IN A 216.69.166.13

www IN A 216.69.166.13
ns IN A 216.69.166.13
ns2 IN A 216.69.166.16



Where am I going wrong here? Do I have to wait longer for the DNS to propagate? Surely if I point my machine to the server I shouldn't have to...

Any help is appreciated.
Thanks,
Alexandre

[SilentRage]

Well let's take an outside perspective.

dig downwithbettman.com

DNS Crawler tried each of your dns servers, but got a "lame" response from each. Basically your dns server doesn't know it is a host for the domain "downwithbettman.com".

Now, I don't know what your distro is, so I can't determine where your named.conf is located for sure, or if you're using chroot, so I'll just make a best guess. Show me the response for this command on 216.69.166.13:

named-checkconf -zj /etc/named.conf

[alexroche]

Thanks for your help.
Here's what I got.

[root@alexandrerochedesign root]# named-checkconf -zj /etc/named.conf
named-checkconf: illegal option -- z
usage: named-checkconf [-v] [-t directory] [named.conf]

So then I tried these commands:

[root@alexandrerochedesign root]# named-checkconf named.conf
none:0: open: named.conf: file not found

AND THEN:
[root@alexandrerochedesign root]# named-checkconf /etc/named.conf
/etc/named.conf:108: zone 'downwithbettman.com': already exists

Any ideas?

[SilentRage]

I guess BIND 9.2.1 named-checkconf doesn't support the z option. Pity. BIND 9.3 does.

I took a second look at your named.conf pasting. Just noticed you've got the same zone twice. You don't want to define a master and a slave for the same zone in the same config. Remove the slave zone {} block and "rndc reload", then check my DNS Crawler link again.

[alexroche]

Seemed to work.

No answer records but gave the authority records as ns.downwithbettman.com and ns2.downwithbettman.com.

[alexroche]

But when I ping the domain from the server it still doesn't work.

Also, how do I set up the secondary on the same server then? Or do I need to with the way I have it listed in the zone file?

Thanks,
Alexandre

[alexroche]

There must be something wrong with my zone file....
Or maybe the cache/boot/reverse and forward mapping files?
I haven't touched those files at all.... I assume that I don't need to, right?

Again, thanks for your help, I'm new to this.

[SilentRage]

The DNS Crawler link is still calling both of your name servers "lame servers". This is not a good thing. So let's see the fruits of your labor by showing me the results for this command again:

named-checkconf /etc/named.conf

Also, I want to see if your BIND is chroot'd. Show me the results for this command:

ps -Af | grep 'named'

You do not need to setup a secondary. Both of your name servers are the same server, so there is only 1 master server.

[alexroche]

For the first one it gave me no results.... which I assume is a good thing. It just jumped to the next line in the terminal.

[root@alexandrerochedesign root]# named-checkconf /etc/named.conf

Here's what it gave me for the second one:

[root@alexandrerochedesign root]# ps -Af | grep 'named'
named 16387 1 0 11:56 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/named -u named -n1 -c /etc/named.conf -u named -t /var/named/run-root
root 32003 6310 0 12:16 pts/1 00:00:00 grep named

Thanks again....

[SilentRage]

Yep, it's chroot'd so that complicates things. Let's see the results of this command instead:

named-checkconf -t /var/named/run-root /etc/named.conf

I also want to see the results of this command: (make sure it's symlink'd)

ls -l /etc/named.conf

And this command: (make sure it exists)

ls -l /var/named/run-root/etc/named.conf

And this command: (check syntax and existance)

named-checkzone /var/named/run-root/var/named/downwithbettman.zone