DNS Help on FreeBSD 4.3

[Cricket Liu]

> I'm having trouble getting my dns to recognize, i'm not sure what i've
done
> wrong. I've included my zone files and my named.conf. I can ping
> ns1.heatfc.com and ns2 but I cannot ping heatfc.com
>
> ns1# less heatfc.com
> IN SOA ns1.heatfc.com mikej.satx.rr.com. (

Missing trailing dot after "ns1.heatfc.com."

> 2 ; Serial
> 86400 ; refresh
> 7200 ; retry
> 864000 ; expire
> 86400 ) ; minimum
>
> heatfc            NS      ns1.heatfc.com
> heatfc            NS      ns2.heatfc.com
> www.heatfc.com    CNAME   heatfc.com

Ditto for the right side of all three of these records, plus the left side
of
the CNAME record.  Without trailing dots, these will all have "heatfc.com"
appended to them.

> ns1               IN A    64.123.85.200
> spectrum          IN A    64.123.85.35
> ns2               IN A    64.123.85.201
> www               IN A    64.123.85.35
> heatfc.com        IN A    64.123.85.35

Ditto here.  That's what's preventing you from being able to ping
heatfc.com.

> IN                NS      ns1.heatfc.com
> IN                NS      ns2.heatfc.com

Ditto these.  Since you have the correct NS records below, you may as well
delete these.

> IN                NS      ns1
> IN                NS      ns2
> IN                MX 50   mail.heatfc.com
> IN                MX 100  mail.swbell.net

Ditto these two MX records.

> ns1# less heatfc-reverse
> IN SOA ns1.heatfc.com. mikej.satx.rr.com. (
>                 2001082101 ; Serial
>                 86400      ; refresh
>                 7200       ; retry
>                 8640000    ; expire
>                 86400 )    ; minimum
>
>                 IN NS      ns1.heatfc.com
>                 IN NS      ns2.heatfc.com
>
> 1               IN PTR     ns1.heatfc.com.com
> 2               IN PTR     ns2.heatfc.com.com
>
> 200.85.123.64.in-addr.arpa.  in PTR ns1.heatfc.com

And there are missing trailing dots in these last five records.  Also, do
you really want two of your IP addresses to reverse map to domain
names that end in com.com?

cricket