Help! Getting SERVFAIL errors on nslookup

Joshua Peter fsjcp2 at hotmail.com
Tue Feb 22 02:19:16 UTC 2005


I'm configuring my first BIND DNS server on RH9, stripped down install box. 
When I'm testing with nslookup on for my master zone somefakedomain.com, I 
get a SERVFAIL error. Please help.

****  nslookup results  ****
[root at localhost fsjcp2]# nslookup
Note:  nslookup is deprecated and may be removed from future releases.
Consider using the `dig' or `host' programs instead.  Run nslookup with
the `-sil[ent]' option to prevent this message from appearing.
>server 127.0.0.1
Default server: 127.0.0.1
Address: 127.0.0.1#53
>somefakedomain.com
Server:         127.0.0.1
Address:        127.0.0.1#53

** server can't find somefakedomain.com: SERVFAIL


****  /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0  ****
DEVICE=eth0
BOOTPROTO=none
ONBOOT=yes
NETWORK=192.168.1.0
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
IPADDR=192.168.1.200
USERCTL=no


****  /etc/named.conf  ****
options {
        directory "/var/named";
        /*
         * If there is a firewall between you and nameservers you want
         * to talk to, you might need to uncomment the query-source
         * directive below.  Previous versions of BIND always asked
         * questions using port 53, but BIND 8.1 uses an unprivileged
         * port by default.
         */
        // query-source address * port 53;
};

//
// a caching only nameserver config
//
controls {
        inet 127.0.0.1 allow { localhost; } keys { rndckey; };
};
zone "." IN {
        type hint;
        file "named.ca";
};

zone "localhost" IN {
        type master;
        file "localhost.zone";
        allow-update { none; };
};

zone "somefakedomain.com" IN {
        type master;
        file "somefakedomain.com.zone";
        allow-update { none; };
};

zone "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa" IN {
        type master;
        file "named.local";
        allow-update { none; };
};

include "/etc/rndc.key";


****  /var/named/somefakedomain.com.zone ****
$TTL    86400
$ORIGIN somefakedomain.com.
@       IN      SOA     ns1.somefakedomain.com. admin.somefakedomain.com.
(
                                        2004042601      ; serial
                                        21600           ; refresh
                                        3600            ; retry
                                        604800          ; expiry
                                        86400 )         ; minimum

        IN      NS              ns1.somefakedomain.com.

        IN      MX     10      mail.somefakedomain.com.

        IN      A               192.168.1.200

ns1     IN      A               192.168.1.200
www     IN      A               192.168.1.200
ftp     IN      A               192.168.1.200
mail    IN      A               192.168.1.200




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