DNS is drivimg me crazy ! (need another set of eyes)

[Simon Hobson]

At 7:37 am +0000 26/11/03, andy dingfelder wrote:
>Ok, I made the jump and formatted my win2k box and installed redhat 9.
>Now im having a bear of a time getting my DNS set up.  I have perused a
>gazillion how-to guides and am obviously missing something :(  Im hoping
>some kind soul can help to keep me from going back to the dark side :P

How many times did you need to post this ?

>1.  I am changing my domain to "mydomain"

Which means that no-one can run any tools to look at your problem.


I did spot this :

>  >>>>>>> start  /var/named/mydomain.com.zone
>
>$TTL 3600
>@       IN      SOA     ns1.mydomain.com.  admin.mydomain.com. (
>                          2003112501 ; serial
>                          2880 ; refresh
>                          720 ; retry
>                          60480 ; expire
>                          8640 ; ttl
>                          )
>          IN      NS      ns1.mydomain.com.
>	IN      NS      ns2.mydomain.com.
>          IN      MX      10 mail.mydomain.com.
>
>ns1             IN      A       100.100.100.100
>
>ns2             IN      A       100.100.100.100
>
>jomamma         IN      A       100.100.100.100
>
>www		IN	CNAME	jomamma
>
>webserver       IN      A       jomamma
>
>mail            IN      A       jomamma

Last time I looked, "jomamma" isn't anything like a dotted decimal IP 
address which is what should appear in the data part of an A record. 
Whether this is your problem or not ...

If you stop, and then start named, what appears in the syslog (should 
be /var/log/syslog IIRC) ? If there is a problem, it is highly likely 
that something will be logged here.

But I understand your frustration. I too have spent many a stressful 
hour puzzling over things that in the end turned out to be very 
simple !

Simon

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