Now I'm in trouble...

[Bill.Light at kp.org]

Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer at nic.fr> 
10/06/05 12:53 AM

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Re: Now I'm in trouble...






On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 10:48:30PM -0700,
 Bill.Light at kp.org <Bill.Light at kp.org> wrote 
 a message of 67 lines which said:

> I noticed my postfix mail was being rejected by AOL...upon
> investigating, it's because of bad DNS.  I'm guessing that I totally
> missed what I did, because mail used to go from my domain to
> AOL...now it's not.

Stupid AOL decision but you cannot do anything. Welcome to the club of
AOL victims.

> zone "120.156.124.66.in-addr.arpa" in {
>         type master;
>         file "db.66.124.156.120";
> };

The zone is indeed broken:

% check_soa 120.156.124.66.in-addr.arpa
There is no name server running on dns1.light-family.com
ns2.4servers.com is not authoritative for 120.156.124.66.in-addr.arpa
ns1.4servers.com is not authoritative for 120.156.124.66.in-addr.arpa

> zone "123.120.156.124.66.in-addr.arpa" in {

No, you should put all your records in one zone,
120.156.124.66.in-addr.arpa.

> Have I at least got /etc/named.conf  correct ?

No. Check your logs to see why 120.156.124.66.in-addr.arpa was not
loaded (I assume dns1.light-family.com is your own server: BIND is
currently not running).

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I DO have reverse delegation

OK I now end /etc/named.comf  with...

zone "120.156.124.66.in-addr.arpa" in {
        type master;
        file "db.66.124.156.120";
};

And the /var/log/messages says:

Oct  6 07:12:01 dns1 named[8676]: running

********  note there is no error from above try, 8676 **************

Oct  6 07:13:45 dns1 named[8724]: starting BIND 9.2.4 -t /var/lib/named -u 
named
Oct  6 07:13:45 dns1 named[8724]: using 1 CPU
Oct  6 07:13:45 dns1 named[8724]: loading configuration from 
'/etc/named.conf'
Oct  6 07:13:45 dns1 named[8724]: listening on IPv4 interface lo, 
127.0.0.1#53
Oct  6 07:13:45 dns1 named[8724]: listening on IPv4 interface eth0, 
66.124.156.1
23#53
Oct  6 07:13:45 dns1 named[8724]: listening on IPv4 interface eth1, 
192.168.19.30#53
Oct  6 07:13:45 dns1 named[8724]: listening on IPv4 interface eth2, 
172.16.13.20#53
Oct  6 07:13:45 dns1 named[8724]: command channel listening on 
127.0.0.1#953
Oct  6 07:13:45 dns1 named[8724]: couldn't add command channel ::1#953: 
address not available
Oct  6 07:13:45 dns1 named[8724]: zone 0.0.127.in-addr.arpa/IN: loaded 
serial 42
Oct  6 07:13:45 dns1 named[8724]: zone 120.156.124.66.in-addr.arpa/IN: 
loaded serial 2004032919
Oct  6 07:13:45 dns1 named[8724]: zone hall-brothers.com/IN: loaded serial 
2004032919
Oct  6 07:13:45 dns1 named[8724]: zone light-family.com/IN: loaded serial 
2004032919
Oct  6 07:13:45 dns1 named[8724]: zone miss-light.com/IN: loaded serial 
2004032919
Oct  6 07:13:45 dns1 named[8724]: zone localhost/IN: loaded serial 42
Oct  6 07:13:45 dns1 named[8724]: running

Nothing else - but if I do 'rcnamed status'

Checking for nameserver BIND                                         dead

I agree it's "dead"  Is there a different log to check somewhere ?  Last 
log message says "running"