Need advice on DNS

[Psycho]

I think possibly you need to look at putting a full stop after the CNAME
like below
www             IN CNAME   ns0.

Though why bother with a CNAME?

I would look at setting up some logging in named.conf. to log to a specifc
file.
Then in named.conf set the level to dynamic so you can increase it level at
a time using rndc  then post the details back to the group.

"Darren Poh" <darpohsh at hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:bogpno$217m$1 at sf1.isc.org...
> Hi,
>
> I have registered for a domain. Let take it to be 'mydomain.com'. The
> registrar do not help me to host my new domain. I use the DNS service
> by DNS-Made-Easy whereby I indicated 2 'A' records.
>
> mydomain.com. with the address 111.222.333.444
> ns0 with the same address
>
> I want to run my own DNS (BIND 9 on Redhat 7.3) on my dedicated
> server. Below is the content of my 'named.conf' file, follow by
> content of the file 'db.mydomain.com'
>
> *********************
>
> // Authorized source addresses
> acl "trusted" {
>         localhost;
>         111.222.333.444;
> };
>
> // Known fake source addresses shouldn't be replied to
> acl "bogon" {
>         0.0.0.0/8;
>         1.0.0.0/8;
>         2.0.0.0/8;
>         192.0.2.0/24;
>         224.0.0.0/3;
>         169.254.0.0/16;
>         // Enterprise networks may or may not be bogus
>         10.0.0.0/8;
>         172.16.0.0/12;
>         192.168.0.0/16;
> };
>
> options {
>         directory "/var/named";
>         query-source address * port 953;
>         allow-transfer { none; };
>         allow-query { trusted; };
>         allow-recursion { trusted; };
>         blackhole { bogon; };
>         version "OpenNA Linux";
> };
>
> logging {
>         category lame-servers { null; };
> };
>
> controls {
>         inet 127.0.0.1 allow { localhost; } keys { "mydomain.com"; };
> };
>
> zone "." IN {
>         type hint;
>         file "db.cache";
> };
>
> zone "mydomain.com" IN {
>         type master;
>         file "db.mydomain.com";
>         allow-update { none; };
>         notify no;
> };
>
> zone "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa" IN {
>         type master;
>         file "db.127.0.0";
>         allow-update { none; };
>         notify no;
> };
>
> zone "333.222.111.in-addr.arpa" IN {
>         type master;
>         file "db.111.222.333";
>         allow-update { none; };
>         notify no;
> };
>
> include "/etc/rndc.key";
>
> ****************
>
> $TTL 10800
> @               IN    SOA ns0.mydomain.com. webmaster.mydomain.com. (
>                       2003110600    ; Serial No - yyyymmdd[0-9][0-9]
>                       10800         ; Refresh after 3 hrs
>                       3600          ; Retry after 1 hr
>                       604800        ; Expires after 1 wk
>                       10800         ; Negative caching TTL of 3 hrs
>                       )
> ;
> ; Name Server(s)
> ;
>                 IN NS      ns0.mydomain.com.
>                 IN NS      ns0.dnsmadeeasy.com.
>                 IN A       111.222.333.444
>                 IN MX 10   mail.mydomain.com.
> ;
> ; Addresses for the canonical names
> ;
> localhost       IN A       127.0.0.1
> ns0             IN A       111.222.333.444
> ;
> ; Aliases
> ;
> www             IN CNAME   ns0
> mail            IN CNAME   ns0
> ftp             IN CNAME   ns0
>
> *************
>
> Remotely, I am able to ping to 'mydomain.com' and also
> 'ns0.mydomain.com'. However, I am not able to ping to
> 'www.mydomain.com'. It seems like the content in my DNS configuration
> is not been recognised by the 'outsie' world. I am not sure where went
> wrong. I hope someone can provide me with some advice.
>
> Thank you.
>