Now I'm in trouble...

[Andrew JW]

Okay, okay - more coffee before replying....
Stephane is quite correct!

Apologies - A.

On Thu, 2005-10-06 at 15:31, Bill.Light at kp.org wrote:

> Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer at nic.fr> 
> 10/06/05 12:53 AM
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> Bill Light/CA/KAIPERM at KAIPERM
> cc
> bind-users at isc.org
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> Re: Now I'm in trouble...
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> 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:
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> > 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 {
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> No, you should put all your records in one zone,
> 120.156.124.66.in-addr.arpa.
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> > 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...
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> zone "120.156.124.66.in-addr.arpa" in {
>         type master;
>         file "db.66.124.156.120";
> };
> 
> And the /var/log/messages says:
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> Oct  6 07:12:01 dns1 named[8676]: running
> 
> ********  note there is no error from above try, 8676 **************
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> 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'
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> Checking for nameserver BIND                                         dead
> 
> I agree it's "dead"  Is there a different log to check somewhere ?  Last 
> log message says "running"
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> 

Andrew JW
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