Problem with DNS on mandriva 2007

[Mark Andrews]

> In article <epap23$1cij$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
>  "Carlos Alberto Bernat Orozco" <cabo81 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hi group
> > I'm totally new to this forum so I apologize for any dummie question.
> > 
> > Here goes my question. I find myself in a trouble due to a DNS configuration
> > that I'm trying to do on mandriva 2007. By default it is configured on
> > (var/lib/named). I put my zones and configured the named.conf and service
> > OK, zones ok (with rndc status)
> > 
> > But when I configured a normal pc with the DNS server IP of mandriva 2007,
> > it can't resolv the web sites. My question is, is there any way to debug
> > bind to see if is working properly?
> > 
> > I did some research and I did the following query to my DNS server
> > 
> > [root at ethereal named]# dig @serverIP mydomain.com.co
> > ;; Got answer:
> > ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 63477
> > ;; flags: qr rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 13, ADDITIONAL: 0
> > 
> > ;; QUESTION SECTION:
> > ;\142\@serverIP.           IN      A
> 
> I don't know where the \142 came from here.  But as a result, it thought 
> you were trying to look up the name "\142 at serverIP", not 
> "mydomain.com.co".  I'm not sure why it reported "NOERROR", it should 
> have reported "NXDOMAIN".

	It's  a referral.  The authority section only has a NS
	RRset.
 
> > ;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
> > .                       3600000 IN      NS      J.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
> > .                       3600000 IN      NS      K.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
> > .                       3600000 IN      NS      L.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
> > .                       3600000 IN      NS      M.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
> > .                       3600000 IN      NS      A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
> > .                       3600000 IN      NS      B.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
> > .                       3600000 IN      NS      C.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
> > .                       3600000 IN      NS      D.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
> > .                       3600000 IN      NS      E.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
> > .                       3600000 IN      NS      F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
> > .                       3600000 IN      NS      G.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
> > .                       3600000 IN      NS      H.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
> > .                       3600000 IN      NS      I.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
> > 
> > ;; Query time: 0 msec
> > ;; SERVER: serverIP#53(serverIP)
> > ;; WHEN: Thu Jan 25 11:50:22 2007
> > ;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 244
> > 
> > 
> > ; <<>> DiG 9.3.2 <<>> @serverIP mydomain.com.co
> > ;; global options:  printcmd
> > ;; Got answer:
> > ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 31303
> > ;; flags: qr aa rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0
> > 
> > ;; QUESTION SECTION:
> > ;mydomain.com.co.               IN      A
> > 
> > ;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
> > mydomain.com.co.        172800  IN      SOA     mydomain.com.co.
> > root.mydomain.com.co. 20060804 10800 7200 1296000 172800
> 
> This is a normal result if you don't have an A record for the name 
> "mydomain.com.co".  If you've defined subdomains like 
> "www.mydomain.com.co", are you able to resolve them?
> 
> > 
> > ;; Query time: 0 msec
> > ;; SERVER: serverIP#53(serverIP)
> > ;; WHEN: Thu Jan 25 11:50:22 2007
> > ;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 74
> > 
> > 
> > Is this a good query? Is my server resolving names? What could be some steps
> > to probe if the DNS server works fine?
> > 
> > Thanks for any help in advanced
> > 
> > Carlos Bernat
> 
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