resolve.conf

[NICKOLA]

Hi
It all started with BIND9.5 (I accidently deleted all the files in /etc/bind/), after couple weekends of repairing I think I was ready to test my DNS server. But I hit a problem my machine resolves ip no matter what. To find out what is the problem I played around with my “/etc/resolv.conf” changed it to “nameserver 127.0.0.1” and various different ip’s on the network my “eth0” is static . No matter what I do I resolve names to IP.
Well these are my last configurations and it stillworks:

root@nicks-server:/# cat /etc/resolv.conf
# Generated by NetworkManager
root@nicks-server:/#

####### My “/etc/resolv.con “ is empty

root@nicks-server:/# cat /etc/network/interfaces
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
address 192.168.1.4
netmask 255.255.255.0
network 192.168.1.0
broadcast 192.168.1.255
gateway 192.168.1.1
root@nicks-server:/#

####### Configurations for my interfaces

; <<>> DiG 9.5.0-P2 <<>> linuxforums.org
root@nicks-server:/# dig linuxforums.org
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 9816
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;linuxforums.org.               IN      A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
linuxforums.org.        300     IN      A       174.132.123.98

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
linuxforums.org.        300     IN      NS      ns1.linuxforums.org.
linuxforums.org.        300     IN      NS      ns2.linuxforums.org.

;; Query time: 100 msec
;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1)
;; WHEN: Fri Mar 20 01:40:16 2009
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 85

###### I’m still “digging” ip’s. I believe that it should not do that with configurations that I have.

root@nicks-server:/# cat /etc/lsb-release
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=8.10
DISTRIB_CODENAME=intrepid
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 8.10"
root@nicks-server:/#
root@nicks-server:/# dig linuxforums.org

###### Ubuntu distribution

Additional processes I run ( in case if it makes difference)
APACHE2.2
NOIP2
PHP5

I understand that there is a simple solution to the problem but unfortunately for I have not found it. My internet research did not give me an answer (maybe I looked for a wrong stuff). I would like to find out if:
1) the machine get’s it DNS server’s ip from some where else.
2) what applications could affect my DNS resolutions and “/etc/resolv.conf” process.
3) And if it’s possible to fix my problem.

Thanks a lot

[blinky]

Iam assuming you have bind running on that machine.

from man resolv.conf

       nameserver Name server IP address
              Internet  address  (in  dot  notation) of a name server that the
              resolver  should  query.   Up  to  MAXNS   (currently   3,   see
              <resolv.h>)  name  servers  may  be listed, one per keyword.  If
              there are multiple servers, the resolver library queries them in
              the  order  listed.   If  no nameserver entries are present, the
              default is to use the name server on the  local  machine.   (The
              algorithm  used  is to try a name server, and if the query times
              out, try the next, until out of name servers, then repeat trying
              all  the  name  servers  until  a  maximum number of retries are
              made.)

[rcgreen]

I'm not sure I understand the question.
The name server running on the local machine
will go out onto the net and resolve addresses.
Post your /etc/bind/named.conf

[NICKOLA]

Thank you blinky it's information that I did not know. Now, lots of things cleared up.

[NICKOLA]

Sorry I should of begin with it. As mentioned before I accidently deleted all the files in /etc/bind/ so I started to reassemble my named.conf I did not created my root zone yet ( I was going to do that after I make sure that DNS is working with example zone.) Anyways, here is my named.conf:

root@nicks-server:/etc/bind# cat named.conf
include "/etc/bind/rndc.key";
options {
};

controls {
        inet 127.0.0.1 allow { localhost; } keys { rndc-key; };
};


zone "example.com" {
        type master;
        file "/etc/bind/local/db.example.com";
};
root@nicks-server:/etc/bind#