named issue

[derelict]

Hello,

I'm starting up with named and I've ran into trouble while getting it to work. I've setup the forwarders correctly on /etc/named.conf and can now use the server (IP is 192.168.2.200) to perform queries on sites on the . zone, as resolv.conf only contains my name server:

nslookup www.yahoo.com
Server:         192.168.2.200
Address:        192.168.2.200#53
Non-authoritative answer:
www.yahoo.com   canonical name = www.yahoo.akadns.net.
Name:   www.yahoo.akadns.net
Address: 216.109.118.73

Then I set up a local zone on named.conf, on which I wanted to register the machines on my network:

zone "home.brr" IN {
        type master;
        file "home.brr";
        allow-query{ any; };
};

The /var/named/home.brr file looks like this:

@       IN      SOA ns.home.brr. nsadmin.home.brr. (
                        20060122 ; serial
                        28800 ; refresh
                        14400 ; retry
                        3600000 ; expire
                        86400 ; minimum
                )
        IN      NS      ns.home.brr.

ns      IN      NS      192.168.2.200
ns      IN      HINFO   Server (P3 800MHz, 384MB, 60GB)
serv   IN      CNAME ns

However, nslookup returns me an error each time I try to query any host on my network:

nslookup ns.home.brr
Server:         192.168.2.200
Address:        192.168.2.200#53

** server can't find ns.home.brr: SERVFAIL

The same thing happens for nslookup serv.home.brr; am I doing something wrong on the configuration?

Thanks in advance

[Roxoff]

You have no A records in your zone.

Try adding a line that looks like this:

ns   IN   A   192.168.2.200

[derelict]

True, that was one of the problems; the other two were related to the file's location (moved from /var/named to /var/named/chroot/var/named/. The other was that the HINFO record didn't obey to the RFC1010 format (http://www.rfc-archive.org/getrfc.php?rfc=1010). Solved, thanks for the help

[y2j_2062]

try this command
tail -f /var/log/messages

u might figure out what the problem is.
dont forget to restart named service after making changes in ny of the files