New BIND User

[Michael Voight]

john at sapic.org wrote:
> 
> I'm attempting to set up BIND for the first time and have run in to some
> problems.  All my experience regarding DNS is with the MS DNS, but decided
> to ditch it because it's so quirky and we've been having recurring problems
> with it for a few months.  For some reason some web sites we host resolve
> out to old IPs and not the new IPs that are actually hosting the web sites
> now (we recently moved our servers and got new IPs).  The old IPs are not to
> be found in any of our DNS files, but they're lurking in the depths of NT
> somewhere and its causing me a major headache!

What do you mean they resolve out to old ips?

How do you see this resolution? 
Do you have old host tables (not DNS, but /etc/hosts type files)

> 
> So, this morning we loaded up BIND 4.9.5 after reading the 1st edition of
> DNS and BIND, but turns out we have some syntax errors.  I've looked through
> my BIND files but everything looks okay to me. 

Without knowing what errors you have or what the files look like, how
can we help?


One problems we're
> experiencing is that BIND will not resolve two of our domains, but will
> resolve several others.

Possibly due to the syntax errors. Were the errors against these
domains?

  Another problem is that those other domains that
> BIND will resolve are being resolved to the wrong IP addresses.  

This would be coming from some DNS server somewhere. Who sees this?
If this is a publicly reachable domain tell us what the domain is.

Michael Voight