Help with multiple zones

[Barry Margolin]

In article <d7gkbd$2t9$1 at sf1.isc.org>, Phusion <phusion2k at gmail.com> 
wrote:

> I'm trying to make an internal DNS server using BIND9. We locally host
> public webservers for multiple domains. I'm setting up the DNS server
> so internal users can go to the local address instead of going out to
> the internet to the public address. Like I said we have multple
> domains which means mutiple zone files, this is where I need help. The
> multple domains are because we've switched company names. I've
> included a copy of the zone file for our main domain. I've used this
> as an example for the other zone files. The DNS server this is on has
> the address of ns.foo.com.
> 
> ----------------------------------------
> db.foo.com =3D Main Domain
> ----------------------------------------
> $TTL    3600
> 
> @       IN      SOA     ns.foo.com. root.ns.foo.com.  (
>                                 20050510        ; Serial
>                                 3600    ; Refresh
>                                 900     ; Retry
>                                 3600000 ; Expire
>                                 3600 )  ; Minimum
> @       IN      NS      ns.foo.com.
> 
> ; Addresses for the canonical names
> mail.foo.com.   IN      A       192.168.10.11
> ns.foo.com.      IN      A       192.168.1.34
> 
> ; Aliases
> ntp.foo.com.     IN      CNAME   ns.foo.com.
> 
> I was wondering if the next zone is correct because I copied most of
> the information except for the addresses at the bottom. I changed the
> SOA line to say ns.foo.net, instead of ns.foo.com. Also, I changed the
> NS line to say ns.foo.net. Is this correct? I've followed the same
> pattern for the other zone files, just changing the address parts at
> the bottom.

You don't have an A record for ns.foo.net, so it's clearly wrong.  If 
all these domains are being hosted on the same server they should all 
have the same server in the SOA and NS records.

> ----------------------------------------
> db.foo.net =3D Another domain
> ----------------------------------------
> $TTL    3600
> 
> @       IN      SOA     ns.foo.net. root.ns.foo.net.  (
>                                 20050510        ; Serial
>                                 3600    ; Refresh
>                                 900     ; Retry
>                                 3600000 ; Expire
>                                 3600 )  ; Minimum
> @       IN      NS      ns.foo.net.
> 
> ; Addresses for the canonical names
> phusion.foo.net. IN    A        192.168.10.27
> dev.foo.net.      IN      A       192.168.1.35
> reports.foo.net. IN      A       192.168.1.35
> 
> Let me know if this is correct? If not tell me what I should do. Thanks.
> 
> Phusion

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Barry Margolin, barmar at alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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