newbie question -- simple dns

[Warren Mansur]

Hi,

Okay, I figured out my problem.  It was rather a silly one at that.  I
have Debian Linux, and it uses a Debianized version of bind.  Thus, it
looks for all files in /etc/bind/ instead of /etc/.  Once I replaced the
named.conf file and malichi.net file in the /etc/bind directory,
everything worked properly.  I can go to ftp.malichi.net, and any other
computer I set up.

Thanks for everyone's help, and if you have Debian Linux, don't be dumb
like I was!

Warren Mansur
home email: wmansur at cs.indiana.edu

On Tue, 19 Sep 2000, Len Conrad wrote:

> 
> 
> >Couldn't be permissions because just for testing I set the file to
> >/var/named/named.run and made the permissions in that directory rwxrwxrwx.
> >It's as if anything I do in the named.conf file is not being payed
> >attention to.
> 
> my dig is saying "1 server found", and I guess you see named in "ps 
> aux | grep named"?
> 
> >I'm not sure, but it's just not creating any file.  It's
> >acting very strange.
> 
> "it" is BIND 8.2.2 p5 ?
> 
> >But, I know it has to be at least working partially
> >because I have only localhost set as a nameserver in resolv.conf, and I
> >can connect to all regularly known hosts.
> 
> It is answering recursive quereies for non malichi domains so named is alive.
> 
> without a named.run, I'm a little blind to see what the errors are.
> 
> >resolv.conf
> 
> used by the DNS client aka resolver
> 
> >nsswitch.conf
> 
> what's that?
> 
> >named.conf
> 
> This looked ok earlier.  Look at the startup scripts to make sure 
> named is being pointed at your config path/file.
> 
> man named
> 
> for startup options
> 
> >malichi.net
> 
> looked ok
> 
> >0.0.127
> >root.hints
> 
> db.cache is the bind8 convetional name for the
> 
> Len
> 
> 
> 
>