Configuring Bind9

[Jst]

Hi,
Im trying to configure bind but everything I do, it doesnt work. I dont know allot about bind and how it work etc.. I looked for some good tutorials but couldnt find anything good, so I was wondering if I could get some help here .

It only has to work on my local computers.

This is my named.conf:

options {
 directory "/var/cache/bind";
 auth-nxdomain no;    # conform to RFC1035
};

zone "." {
 type hint;
 file "/etc/bind/db.root";
};

zone "localhost" {
 type master;
 file "/etc/bind/db.local";
};

zone "127.in-addr.arpa" {
 type master;
 file "/etc/bind/db.127";
};

zone "prophet.lan" {
 type master;
 file "/etc/bind/db.prophet.lan";
};

zone "255.in-addr.arpa" {
 type master;
 file "/etc/bind/db.255";
};

And this is the zone file:

$TTL 604800
@ IN SOA prophet. root.prophet.lan. (
         1  ; Serial
    604800  ; Refresh
     86400  ; Retry
   2419200  ; Expire
    604800 ) ; Negative Cache TTL
  NS buijgers.lan.

localhost  A 127.0.0.1
router  A 192.168.0.1
prophet.lan. A 192.168.0.112

pentest  CNAME prophet.lan.

I want to be able to just enter www.prophets.lan on any computer that is connected to my network and have it automaticly acces my webserver

Tnx in advance
Jst.

[SilentRage]

Well I see you've got a "prophet.lan" zone all ready for action, but where's the "www" A record assigning the webserver's private IP to the hostname? You've got something going on for localhost, router, and pentest, but no www.

[Jst]

So this is how I should make the zonefile for prophet.lan look:

$TTL 604800
@ IN SOA prophet. root.prophet.lan. (
         1  ; Serial
    604800  ; Refresh
     86400  ; Retry
   2419200  ; Expire
    604800 ) ; Negative Cache TTL
  NS buijgers.lan.

localhost  A 127.0.0.1
router  A 192.168.0.1
prophet.lan. A 192.168.0.112

pentest  CNAME prophet.lan.
www  CNAME prophet.lan

Jst.

[SilentRage]

I've got 2 problems with that. One, you added a CNAME record, which isn't the best way to go. I said you needed to add an A record. Two, you forgot the period at the end of prophet.lan, which totally screws that up.

[Jst]

This is how it looks now:

$TTL 604800 
@ IN SOA prophet. root.prophet.lan. ( 
* * * * *1* ; Serial 
* * 604800* ; Refresh 
* * *86400* ; Retry 
* *2419200* ; Expire 
* * 604800 ) ; Negative Cache TTL 
* NS buijgers.lan. 

localhost* A 127.0.0.1 
router* A 192.168.0.1 
prophet.lan. A 192.168.0.112 
www A 192.168.0.112

pentest* CNAME prophet.lan.

I dont know if this is right..
Well, uit still isnt working, the pentest wasnt working either, router also doesnt work..

Jst.

[SilentRage]

Well the zone file is fine, you probably just need to set your /etc/resolv.conf apropriately. Show me the file's current contents.

[Jst]

I dindt know I had to edit resolv.conf, so its still in its original state..

search
nameserver 62.108.1.67
nameserver 212.142.28.66

Jst.

[Jst]

It was pretty abvious on how I should change resolv.conf..

search 
nameserver 192.168.0.112

Everything works fine now, thanks allot .

Jst.

[SilentRage]

Change these two lines:

nameserver 62.108.1.67
nameserver 212.142.28.66

to this line only:

nameserver 127.0.0.1

Also, changed your named.conf so that these lines:

options {
directory "/var/cache/bind";
auth-nxdomain no; # conform to RFC1035
};

Look like these lines:

options {
directory "/var/cache/bind";
auth-nxdomain no; # conform to RFC1035
recursion yes;
allow-recursion { 127.0.0.1; };
forwarders { 62.108.1.67; 212.142.28.66; };
};

I think that looks pretty good.

[SilentRage]

looks like you replied while I was typing. You don't need to implement the changes I suggested. What you did is fine.