BIND9: Great Except for Local Domain

[Richard Petty]

I'm running BIND9 on White Box Enterprise Linux 3 at my home. I'm using 
dyndns.org for my Internet presence, behind a run-of-the-mill NAT-based cable 
router.

Until recently, I used a bogus private domain name ("something.bogus") for my 
home LAN. I've decided to set up an email server and I changed the private 
domain name of my LAN to match the dyndns-based domain name that the outside 
world sees: "mynet.mine.nu"

BIND9 is working fine, correctly returning information for sites on the Internet 
and on my home LAN. If I do a "host slashdot.org" I get "slashdot.org has 
address 66.35.250.150" and if I do a "host printer" I get "printer.mynet.mine.nu 
has address 192.168.0.199".

I have a couple dyndns subdomains pointed at me, so that "host test.mine.nu" 
returns "test.mine.nu has address 70.112.192.3"... my current ISP-assigned IP 
number.

However, doing "host mynet.mine.nu" (the main name pointed at my home) fails. No 
error is produced; it simply returns an empty line. This happens if the lookup 
command is executed either on my LAN DNS server or on any client on my LAN 
pointed at my DNS server.

Of course, this hoses network servers that do a hostname() type lookup.

I'm sure it's a very, very simply mistake I've made but, after weeks, I cannot 
detect it. Any theories?

--Richard

Austin, Texas


Listings below contain bogus names and external IP numbers.
"kayak" is my home DNS and mail server:


File: resolv.conf
-----------------------------------------
domain mynet.mine.nu
search mynet.mine.nu
nameserver localhost




File: named.conf
-----------------------------------------
options { 
        directory "/var/named";
        forward first;
        forwarders { 29.26.193.63; 29.93.40.68; 29.93.40.70; };
};
controls { 
        inet 127.0.0.1 allow { localhost; } keys { rndckey; };
};
zone "." { 
        type hint;
        file "named.ca";
};
zone "localhost" { 
        allow-update { none; };
        type master;
        file "localhost.zone";
};
zone "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa" { 
        allow-update { none; };
        type master;
        file "127.0.0";
};
zone "mynet.mine.nu" { 
        type master;
        file "mynet.mine.nu.zone";
};
zone "0.168.192.in-addr.arpa" {
        type master;
        notify no;
        file "192.168.0";
};

include  "/etc/rndc.key";



File: 127.0.0
-----------------------------------------
$TTL 86400
@       IN      SOA     kayak.mynet.mine.nu. admin.mynet.mine.nu.     (
                                1997022717 ; serial
                                28800 ; refresh
                                14400 ; retry
                                3600000 ; expire
                                86400 ; ttl
                                )
;
        NS      localhost.
1       PTR     localhost.



File: 192.168.0
-----------------------------------------
$TTL 86400
@       IN      SOA     kayak.mynet.mine.nu. admin.mynet.mine.nu.     (
                                1997022720 ; serial
                                28800 ; refresh
                                14400 ; retry
                                3600000 ; expire
                                86400 ; ttl
                                )
;
        NS      kayak.mynet.mine.nu.

1       PTR     router.mynet.mine.nu.
2       PTR     lombard.mynet.mine.nu.
5       PTR     kayak.mynet.mine.nu.
6       PTR     g4.mynet.mine.nu.
30      PTR     bridge.mynet.mine.nu.
199     PTR     printer.mynet.mine.nu.



File: mynet.mine.nu.zone
-----------------------------------------
$TTL 86400
@       IN      SOA     kayak.mynet.mine.nu. admin.mynet.mine.nu.  (
                                27 ; serial
                                28800 ; refresh
                                14400 ; retry
                                3600000 ; expire
                                86400 ; ttl
                                )
;
                NS      kayak.mynet.mine.nu. ;Inet Address of name server

localhost       A       127.0.0.1
router          A       192.168.0.1
lombard         A       192.168.0.2
kayak           A       192.168.0.5
g4              A       192.168.0.6
bridge          A       192.168.0.30
printer         A       192.168.0.199