Difficulties with bind, please help ?

[Kevin Darcy]

Offhand, I don't see anything obviously wrong (except for the last line of the
dhs.org zonefile being munged, but I assume that was just an artifact of your
cut&paste, since there's no complaints about it in the logs).

I am curious, though, why are you mixing external (62.108.6.254) and internal
(192.168.1.*) addresses in the same zonefile? There's usually no legitimate
reason to do that.

Is named dumping a core file? Maybe something useful could be gleaned from it.


- Kevin

Jeroen wrote:

> Hello,
>
> i'm having some difficulties with bind. It isn't stabel and i don't know
> what's wrong. Bind doesn't give any errors and when restart it everything
> works fine. Sometimes bind stay 2days online and sometimes tjust 1 day.
> Hopefully someone could have a look at my configurationfiles maybe there is
> something wrong with ?
>
> Here the evidence that there are no errors at startup, btw i'm using RH 7.0:
>
> Mar 11 21:15:36 wijdogen named[18459]: starting (/etc/named.conf).  named
> 8.2.3-
> REL Sat Jan 27 05:11:05 EST 2001
> ^Iprospector at porky.devel.redhat.com:/usr/src/bs
> /BUILD/bind-8.2.3/src/bin/named
> Mar 11 21:15:36 wijdogen named[18459]: hint zone "" (IN) loaded (serial 0)
> Mar 11 21:15:36 wijdogen named[18459]: master zone "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa"
> (IN) l
> oaded (serial 1997022700)
> Mar 11 21:15:36 wijdogen named[18459]: master zone "wijdogen.dhs.org" (IN)
> loade
> d (serial 5)
> Mar 11 21:15:37 wijdogen named[18459]: master zone "dhs.org" (IN) loaded
> (serial
>  5)
> Mar 11 21:15:37 wijdogen named[18459]: master zone "1.168.192.in-addr.arpa"
> (IN)
>  loaded (serial 5)
> Mar 11 21:15:37 wijdogen named[18459]: listening on [127.0.0.1].53 (lo)
> Mar 11 21:15:37 wijdogen named[18459]: listening on [192.168.1.253].53
> (eth0)
> Mar 11 21:15:37 wijdogen named[18459]: Forwarding source address is
> [0.0.0.0].23
> 54
> Mar 11 21:15:37 wijdogen named: named startup succeeded
> Mar 11 21:15:37 wijdogen named[18461]: group = 25
> Mar 11 21:15:37 wijdogen named[18461]: user = named
> Mar 11 21:15:37 wijdogen named[18461]: Ready to answer queries.
>
> /var/named/db.1.168.192:
>
> $TTL 3D
> @ IN SOA ns1.wijdogen.dhs.org. root.wijdogen.dhs.org.  (
>                                       5 ; Serial
>                                       28800      ; Refresh
>                                       14400      ; Retry
>                                       3600000    ; Expire
>                                       86400 )    ; Minimum
> 1.168.192.in-addr.arpa. IN NS ns1.wijdogen.dhs.org.
>
> 1.1.168.192.in-addr.arpa.  IN PTR caroline.wijdogen.dhs.org.
> 253.1.168.192.in-addr.arpa.  IN PTR ns1.wijdogen.dhs.org.
> 253.1.168.192.in-addr.arpa.  IN PTR server.wijdogen.dhs.org.
> 253.1.168.192.in-addr.arpa.  IN PTR firewall.wijdogen.dhs.org.
>
> /var/named/db.dhs.org:
>
> $TTL 3D
> @ IN SOA ns1.dhs.org. root.dhs.org.  (
>                                       5 ;Serial
>           28800      ; Refresh
>                                       14400      ; Retry
>                                       3600000    ; Expire
>                                       86400 )    ; Minimum
>     IN NS ns1.wijdogen.dhs.org.
>
> localhost.dhs.org.    IN  A     127.0.0.1
> wijdogen.dhs.org.     IN  A     192.168.1.253
> mail4wijdogen.dhs.org.     IN  A     192.168.1.253
> cil.dhs.org. IN A 62.108.6.254$TTL 3D
>
> /var/named/db.wijdogen.dhs.org:
>
> @ IN SOA ns1.wijdogen.dhs.org. root.wijdogen.dhs.org.  (
>                                       5 ;Serial
>           28800      ; Refresh
>                                       14400      ; Retry
>                                       3600000    ; Expire
>                                       86400 )    ; Minimum
>     IN NS ns1.wijdogen.dhs.org.
>
> localhost.wijdogen.dhs.org.    IN  A     127.0.0.1
> caroline.wijdogen.dhs.org.     IN  A     192.168.1.1
> firewall.wijdogen.dhs.org.     IN  A     192.168.1.254
> server.wijdogen.dhs.org.       IN  A     192.168.1.253
> ns1.wijdogen.dhs.org.          IN  A     192.168.1.253
> caroline.wijdogen.dhs.org.     IN  MX 0 caroline.wijdogen.dhs.org.
> wijdogen.dhs.org. IN A 192.168.1.253
>
> /var/named/named.local:
>
> $TTL 2D
> @      IN      SOA     localhost. root.localhost.  (
>                                       1997022700 ; Serial
>                                       28800      ; Refresh
>                                       14400      ; Retry
>                                       3600000    ; Expire
>                                       86400 )    ; Minimum
>               IN      NS      ns1.wijdogen.dhs.org.
>
> 1 IN PTR localhost.
>
> /etc/named.conf:
>
> options {
>  directory "/var/named";
>  /*
>   * If there is a firewall between you and nameservers you want
>   * to talk to, you might need to uncomment the query-source
>   * directive below.  Previous versions of BIND always asked
>   * questions using port 53, but BIND 8.1 uses an unprivileged
>   * port by default.
>   *
> *  query-source address * port 53;
> */
> forwarders { 62.108.1.65;};
>
> };
>
> //
> // a caching only nameserver config
> //
>
> zone "." {
>  type hint;
>  file "named.ca";
> };
>
> zone "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa" {
>  type master;
>  file "named.local";
>
> };
>
> zone "wijdogen.dhs.org" {
>  type master;
>  file "db.wijdogen.dhs.org";
>
> };
>
> zone "dhs.org" {
>  type master;
>  file "db.dhs.org";
>  forwarders { 62.108.1.65;};
> };
>
> zone "1.168.192.in-addr.arpa" {
>  type master;
>  file "db.1.168.192";
>
> };
>
> Red Hat Linux release 7.0 (Guinness)
> Kernel 2.2.17-14 on an i586
> E-mail: jeroen at wijdogen.dhs.org   ICQ:23692948
> 8:52pm  up 16 days,  1:39,  1 user,  load average: 0.01, 0.06, 0.07