am I settng up BIND correctly?

[Barry Margolin]

In article <abk42a$doie$1 at isrv4.isc.org>, Michael Zadra <zadra at lvcm.com> wrote:
>Hello,
>
>My host was nice enough to install BIND 8 on one my dedicated boxes. I
>intend to use this new nameserver only for the main domain and all
>subdomains on this server. I created ZONE records for all the domains in
>named.conf and made all the files for each domain/subdomain. I figured out I
>needed to have those xxx.xxx.xxx.in-addr.arpa records and added those for IP
>of the server and for the IP of the domains. I didn't add a in-addr.arpa
>record for the nameserver IP...wasn't sure if I needed to, or not.
>
>Oh, and I logged into my account at DirectNic and made nameservers out of
>one of my domains.
>(ns1.realgirlshosting.com/198.65.151.225 and
>ns2.realgirlshosting.com/198.65.151.226)

What domains are you hosting on these servers?

I tried querying them for the root NS records and they both returned
SERVFAIL error codes, so I suspect you didn't configure the root hints
zones properly.

Please post the named.conf file and all the zone files.

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