[H-GEN] DNS setup Help and assistance sought.

[Raymond Smith]

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Hi Greg,

It looks like you are using BIND for your DNS. The first thing you should
do, if you have not already done so, is pucharse a copy of _DNS and BIND_
3rd Edition (I just bought 2nd Edition, but I notice that Amazon.com lists
a 3rd Edition today) published by O'Reilly. This book was of great help to
me when maintaining a DNS zone at work.

On Tue, 22 May 2001, gwhite wrote:
> /etc/hosts.conf
> order hosts,bind  # Could someone tell me what the commer is for.
> multi on

*shrug* I have always used the ',' rather than the ' ' delimiter.
Different OS or nsswitch library perhaps?

> /etc/httpd/conf/named.conf
> // generated by named-bootconf.pl

This file looked good to me.

> /var/named/named.local

This file also looks good.

> /var/named/byronconcerts.com.hosts
> byronconcerts.com.      IN      SOA     server1.Veruska.net.
> gwhite.star.brisnet.org.au. (
>                         990326074
>                         10800
>                         3600
>                         432000
>                         38400 )
> byronconcerts.com.      IN      NS      server1.Veruska.net.
> byronconcerts.com.      IN      NS      ns2.byronconcerts.com.
> byronconcerts.com.      IN      A       209.61.188.146
> ns1.byronconcerts.com.  IN      A       209.61.188.146
> ns2.byronconcerts.com.  IN      A       209.61.188.146
> www.byronconcerts.com.  IN      CNAME   byronconcerts.com.
> ns.byronconcerts.com.   IN      NS      byronconcerts.com
> // Probably one to many NS here. Help here would be good. Please!

This file does look a little confused to me. First, you have no MX (Mail
eXchange) records. You probably do want at least one so you can have mail
for the domain spooled by one host.

Second, the NS records seem a bit dodgy. The final line above says that
hosts in the domain ns.byronconcerts.com. may be found at the nameserver
byronconcerts.com which is not what you want methinks. I'd expect you to
have something like:

	byronconcerts.com.	IN	NS	ns1.byronconcerts.com.
	byronconcerts.com.	IN	NS	ns.isp.net.au.
	byronconcerts.com.	IN	MX	mail.byronconcerts.com.
	byronconcerts.com.	IN	MX	mx.isp.net.au.
	byronconcerts.com.	IN	A	10.1.1.1
	www.byronconcerts.com.	IN	CNAME	byronconcerts.com.

But I could be wrong -- anyone else have an oppinion? Similiar comments
apply to your other zones. My knowledge of DNS is mostly from the book
cited above[1] and I recommend you get a copy of this book.

HTH,

Raymond

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