Cannot create A record issue

[Jsilliman]

Thanks, I found the issue.  I had a typo in named.conf for the zone
file name. Doh

On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 11:29 AM, Warren Kumari <warren at kumari.net> wrote:
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> On Feb 20, 2013, at 2:17 PM, Jsilliman <jsilliman at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> I just changed the domain name in output.  If I do a dig on
>>
>> dig example.com
>>
>> ** Returns nothing.  I have to actually dig on ns1.example.com,
>> www..., or mail...
>>
>> I am trying to add an A record (remote.example.com), and have it work...
>>
>>
>> root at server1:/etc/bind# dig remote.example.com
>>
>> ; <<>> DiG 9.8.1-P1 <<>> remote.example.com
>> ;; global options: +cmd
>> ;; Got answer:
>> ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 2650
>> ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0
>>
>> ;; QUESTION SECTION:
>> ;remote.example.com.           IN      A
>>
>> ;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
>> example.com.           9267    IN      SOA     ns1.example.com.
>> root.localhost. 3 604800 86400 2419200 604800
>>
>> ;; Query time: 1 msec
>> ;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1)
>> ;; WHEN: Wed Feb 20 11:13:45 2013
>> ;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 91
>
> The serial number in the above is 3 -- the serial in the other examples was 10…
>
> So, BIND is not picking up the changes you've made since #3…
>
> If you run named-checkzone <zonename>  <filename>
>
> does it give any errors?
>
> Does rndc work?
> If you run rndc reload <zone> does it fix things? Is there anything logged about not being able to read the file? or syntax errors?
> If you restart BIND ?
>
> W
>
>
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 11:09 AM, Alan Clegg <alan at clegg.com> wrote:
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>>> On Feb 20, 2013, at 2:06 PM, Jsilliman <jsilliman at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Check this out:
>>>>
>>>> dig @localhost 69.62.x.x
>>>>
>>>> 10800   IN      SOA     a.root-servers.net. nstld.verisign-grs.com.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Shouldn't this be going to my local server for SOA ?
>>>>
>>>> The issue is that when I create a new A record, such as,
>>>> remote.example.com, I cannot do a dig on that record, only mx and ns
>>>> records.
>>>
>>> You are using dig wrong.    try "dig @localhost -x 69.62.x.x"
>>>
>>> This, in addition, is unrelated to the question that you originally asked.
>>>
>>> Can you please provide FULL, un-edited, non-condensed output that shows the missing A record?
>>>
>>> AlanC
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