Can't ping the BIND NS Server?

[Saad Kadhi]

On Fri, 2002-04-12 at 02:42, Steven Lai wrote:
> 
> Hi :
> I am trying to configure my BIND Dns server, ns1.komodo.com (IP
> 65.119.31.58). Just a very basic question!  I have a IP range 65.119.31.33 -
> 65.119.31.63 Subnet  255.255.255.224.
> 
> On the BIND NS ns1.komodo.com, I can use HOST or DIG to resolve other domain
> name e.g www.yahoo.com. I can ping any IP on the Internet. However, if I use
> another Name Server on a different domain to ping the BIND server
> ns1.komodo.com, it comes back with "Unknown Host ns1.komodo.com". It just
> wouldn't ping anything on that BIND NS. No other NS can ping this server!
so delegation information must be incorrect since komodo.com is not
delegated to ns1.komodo.com as shown by the following dig req:
[saad at kenjiro tmp]$ dig @ns1.sceptre.com ns1.komodo.com

; <<>> DiG 9.1.3 <<>> @ns1.sceptre.com ns1.komodo.com
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 3707
;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;ns1.komodo.com.			IN	A

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
komodo.com.		3600	IN	SOA	ns1.sceptre.com. administrator.sceptre.com. 19
900 600 86400 3600


> This ns1.komodo.com is registered with Internic! The Named services started
> fine. Restart it too! Seems fine.
the gtlds of com are delegating komodo.com to ns1.sceptre.com and
dns2.sceptre.com. You should modify your registration to point to
ns1.komodo.com (and any other slave you might have for komodo.com). 

> I tried to compare with other examples of the DNS file. Just can't seems to
> figure out what's wrong! I have tried for a few days trying to resolve this
> problem!
> Can someone help? Attached is my Reverse file, Named.Conf file. Thanks so
> much!
> 65.119.31.33-64 Reverse File
> =======================
> $TTL	43200
> @		IN	SOA	ns1.komodo.com.	hostmaster.ns1.komodo.com. (
> 			2002041102 ; serial
> 			1H ; refresh
> 			15 ; retry
> 			14D ; expire
> 			1H ; default_ttl
> 			)
> 58		IN	PTR	ns1.komodo.com.
> ns1.komodo.com.		IN	A	65.119.31.58
> @		IN	NS	ns1.komodo.com.
> ==============================================
> Named.Conf File
> options {
> 	directory "/var/named";
> 	forwarders{
> 	};
> };
> // generated by named-bootconf.pl
> // secret must be the same as in /etc/rndc.conf
> 	key "key"{
> 	algorithm hmac-md5;
> 	secret "c3Ryb25nIGVub3VnaCBmb3IgYSBtYW4gYnV0IG1hZGUgZm9yIGEgd29tYW4K";
> };
> controls{
> 	inet 127.0.0.1 allow{
> 		any;
> 	}	keys{
> 		"key";
> 	};
> };
> zone "." {
> 	type hint;
> 	file "named.ca";
> };
> zone "komodo.info" {
> 	type master;
> 	file "komodo.info";
> };
> zone "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa" {
> 	type master;
> 	file "named.local";
> };
> zone "33-62.32.31.119.65.IN-ADDR.ARPA" {
> 	type master;
> 	file "65.119.31.33-64";
> };
> ====================================================
> (komodo.info dns file)
> $TTL	43200
> @		IN	SOA	ns1.komodo.com.	hostmaster.ns1.komodo.com. (
> 			2002041102 ; serial
> 			1H ; refresh
> 			15 ; retry
> 			14D ; expire
> 			1H ; default_ttl
> 			)
> ;ns1		IN	A	65.119.31.58
> @		IN	MX	5	mail.komodo.com.
> @		IN	NS	ns1.komodo.com.
> @	10	IN	A	65.119.31.58
> ftp		IN	A	65.119.31.58
> mail		IN	A	65.119.31.58
> www		IN	A	65.119.31.58
> 
> 
> 
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