[Newbie] BIND8 Configuration

[Kevin Darcy]

Well, you're trying to load the "universe" zone from a file called 
"localhost.zone", which probably doesn't have the appropriate zone data 
in it. If this is true, then there should have been all sorts of ugly 
log messages about it -- you should really get into the habit of 
watching your logs whenever your change anything.

Also, you have no "domain" directive in the /etc/resolv.conf so I'm not 
sure why you thought "sun" without any domain on it would work...

                                                                        
                                                - Kevin

Silvio Wangler wrote:

>Hello Kevin,
>
>First of all thank for your hints.
>The reverse lookup works now. --> host 10.10.10.1 --> sun.universe
>But if I try a forward lookup --> host sun or host sun.universe it 
>always receive <host not found>.
>Btw. I am able access my ISPs DNS over IP Masquerading.
>
>Any idea? Where is the problem? Thanks for your support.
>
>Best regards
>
>Silvio
>
>PS: see listings below.
>
>Kevin Darcy wrote:
>
>  
>
>>Presumably the leading triple dots in your hints file above are just 
>>artifacts of some mail-server munging...
>>
>>You shouldn't specify "forwarders first" if you have no direct 
>>connectivity to the Internet, which the evidence you've shown so far 
>>suggests is the case.
>>
>>Also, 127.0.0.1/16 is bogus. Either you should specify 127.0/16 (extra 
>>octets can be specified if they are all 0), if you want to allow the 
>>whole 16-bit range, or you should drop the "/16" altogether, i.e. just 
>>"127.0.0.1", or use the special keyword "localhost", to allow only the 
>>loopback address.
>>    
>>
>
>
>[/var/etc/universe.zone]
>@               IN SOA          sun.universe. root.sun.universe. (
>                                 1               ; serial (d. adams)
>                                 8D              ; refresh
>                                 2H              ; retry
>                                 2W              ; expiry
>                                 1D )            ; minimum
>
>                 IN NS           sun.universe.
>
>localhost       IN A            127.0.0.1
>sun             IN A            10.10.10.1
>blackhole       IN A            10.10.10.113
>asteroid        IN A            10.10.10.20
>earth           IN A            10.10.10.10
>moon            IN A            10.10.10.11
>entrance        IN A            10.10.10.111
>
>[/var/etc/10.10.10.zone]
>@               IN SOA          sun.universe.   root.sun.universe. (
>                                 42              ; serial (d. adams)
>                                 1D              ; refresh
>                                 2H              ; retry
>                                 1W              ; expiry
>                                 2D )            ; minimum
>
>                 IN NS           sun.universe.
>
>1               IN PTR          sun.universe.
>10              IN PTR          earth.universe.
>11              IN PTR          moon.universe.
>20              IN PTR          asteroid.universe.
>111             IN PTR          entrance.universe.
>113             IN PTR          blackhole.universe.
>
>; Alias adresser:
>;
>intra           IN   CNAME      sun.universe.
>
>[/etc/named.conf]
>options {
>         directory "/var/named";
>         forwarders {
>                 62.2.17.60;
>                 62.2.24.162;
>                 62.2.17.61;
>                 };
>         #forward first;
>         listen-on port 53 {
>                 10.10.10.1;
>                 127.0.0.1;
>                 };
>         allow-query {
>                 localhost;
>                 10.10.10.0/24;
>                 };
>         cleaning-interval 120;
>         statistics-interval 0;
>         notify no;
>};
>
>zone "localhost" in {
>         type master;
>         file "localhost.zone";
>};
>
>zone "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa" in {
>         type master;
>         file "127.0.0.zone";
>};
>
>zone "." in {
>         type hint;
>         file "root.hint";
>};
>
>zone "10.10.10.in-addr.arpa" in {
>         type master;
>         notify no;
>         file "10.10.10.zone";
>};
>
>zone "universe" in {
>         type master;
>         notify no;
>         file "localhost.zone";
>};
>
>
>
>
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