RH 9 dns help

[Barry Finkel]

Peter <no_spam_pbournias at hotmail.com> wrote (in part):

>I recently installed RH 9 and thought that copying my setup from RH 6 to the
>new setup was going to make things easy but now I see that dns is not working
>properly.
>
>Can someone spot check this for me?
>
>I have included various test results towards the bottom.
>
>Thanks,
>Peter
>
>   <much snipped>
>
>dodo.cxm.zone
>;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
>@	IN	SOA	aurora.dodo.cxm. root.dodo.cxm. (
>	    7          ; Serial
>                                    7200       ; Refresh
>                                    1800       ; Retry
>                                    3600000    ; Expire
>                                    7200 )     ; Minimum
>
>;name servers and mail server
>	IN	NS	aurora.dodo.cxm.
>	IN	MX 10	aurora.dodo.cxm.
>	IN	A	192.168.100.3
>aurora	IN	A	192.168.100.3
>
>;addresses of the canonical names
>localhost 	IN	A	127.0.0.1
>gateway	 	 IN	A	192.168.100.3
>
>;aliases (to use ftp eg., you do ftp.dodo.cxm )
>www	CNAME	ns
>mail	CNAME	ns
>ftp	CNAME	ns
>pop3	CNAME	ns
>
>   <more snipped>

In this zone, you have four lines of CNAMES pointing to a name "ns",
but I do not see any "A" record for "ns".

Note that in your 

     pab.cxm.zone

file you do have four CNAME lines pointing to name

     virtual

and you DO have an "A" record for "virtual".

I cannot say that this is the only problem with your zones.
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