ns_resp inquiry

[S. Morgan Friedman]

	hi all!

	i'm morgan and i'm pretty new to bind but i've been
	studying the documentation and HOWTO and i'm somewhat
	confused, so i hope that one of you could point me
	in the right direction! 

	here's what i'm trying to do: i have a DSL connection
	with a permanent IP address. i registerd a domain
	(tripsmith.com) and told them to use my proxy server 
	as my primary nameserver (gatsby.tripsmith.com); as 
	my secondary i'm using granitecanyon's service. (this
	is just a fun project i'm trying to learn, so this
	will do--nothing professional.) so now i'm trying
	to configure gatsby.tripsmith.com as a nameserver
	and i'm running into difficulties. i installed 
	bind 8.1.2-5 on my redhat 5.1 machine and i
	tried to configure it (a la the HOWTO) but when 
	i try to access the domain (say, by going to
	www.tripsmith.com), the /var/log/messages log 
	always gives the same response:

Nov 11 22:13:40 gatsby named[747]: ns_resp: query(www.tripsmith.com) contains
our address (GATSBY.TRIPSMITH.COM:208.248.253.147)  

	note that it does *not* then give a ns_forw nor
	any other command; just this. the named.local 
	file is this simple file:

############################################
@ IN SOA gatsby.tripsmith.com.  (
                                      1997022700 ; Serial
                                      28800 ; Refresh
                                      14400 ; Retry
                                      3600000 ; Expire
                                      86400 )  ; Minimum
        IN NS localhost.
 
@ 		A 	192.168.1.7
www		A 	192.168.1.7
 
1 	IN 	PTR 	localhost.
############################################

	note that i had expected the 'www A 192.168.1.7'
	line to forward my request for 'www.tripsmith.com'
	to the machine on my lan 192.168.1.7, but instead
	it just fails, never does an ns_forw, and thus
	presumably it goes to the secondary nameserver
	which points it to another page (the old hosting
	service i was using to hold onto the page). i
	really don't know what i'm doing wrong, and like
	i said i'm new to this and really want to learn.
	i would appreciate any leads. thank you!!! :)
	if there are any other files you'd like to see
	to help explain the problem, i'll gladly forward
	any, just let me know!!!! :)

	morgan



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