findns error (NXDOMAIN) help

[Kevin Darcy]

It's not legal to point an MX record at an alias (mail.mewnet.com).

It's not legal to point an NS record at an alias either (which you are doing in
your reverse zone).

Also, your CNAMEs are "dangling" because you haven't defined an A record called
"mewnet.com". What did you expect all of those CNAMEs to resolve to?

By the way, I don't think "127.00.1" is what you want either...


- Kevin


mew wrote:

> Hi, I've looked through the archive and doc's and tried various combinations
> but seem to be making it worse. Can someone please tell me where I'm going
> wrong? Originally I was getting a NXDOMAIN error now I'm also getting a
> CNAME errors as well.
> Thanks in advance for the help.
>
> Log entries after startup:
> Sep  7 20:48:25 ns named[26977]: "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa IN NS" points to a
> CNAME (ns.mewnet.com)
> Sep  7 20:48:40 ns named[26977]: "mewnet.com IN MX" points to a CNAME
> (mail.mewnet.com)
> Sep  7 20:48:44 ns named[26977]: sysquery: findns error (NXDOMAIN) on
> ns.mewnet.com?
>
> Domain name: mewnet.com
> Machine named is running ml1.mewnet.com 66.92.144.197
>
> The zone file that I can't seem to get right:
> @       IN      SOA     mewnet.com. mew.mewnet.com. (
>                         2001090703      ; serial
>                         8H              ; refresh seconds
>                         2H              ; retry seconds
>                         1W              ; expire
>                         1D )            ; min seconds
> ;
>                 IN      NS mewnet.com.          ; name server
>                 MX      10 mail.mewnet.com.     ; mail server
> ;
> ns              IN  CNAME mewnet.com.
> www             IN  CNAME mewnet.com.
> kenwww          IN  CNAME mewnet.com.
> mail            IN  CNAME mewnet.com.
> ;
> localhost       A       127.00.1
> ml2             A        66.92.144.198
> warp1           A        66.92.144.199
> ml1             A        66.92.144.197
> ;
>
> Reverse zone:
> 197.144.92.66.in-addr.arpa. IN SOA      ns.mewnet.com. mew.mewnet.com. (
>                         20010718001     ; serial
>                         8H              ; refresh seconds
>                         2H              ; retry seconds
>                         1W              ; expire
>                         1D )            ; min seconds
> ;
> 197.144.92.66.in-addr.arpa. IN NS ns.mewnet.com.
> ;
> 197.144.92.66.in-addr.arpa. IN PTR ml1.mewnet.com.