Need help debugging my zone file

Michael Sullivan msulli1355 at gmail.com
Sun Jan 26 22:46:38 UTC 2014


Years ago I set up a DNS server on my network.  I found out last Friday
that it is no longer working.  I switched to a new ISP last July and
after that, my network numbers changed from 192.168.2.? to 192.168.0.?.
 I have updated my zone file, but it still doesn't work and I can't
figure out why.

Here's the output from named-checkconf:

carter bind # named-checkconf named.conf
carter bind #


So named.conf is good.

The problem I'm having is with db.espersunited.com

Here's the output of named-checkzone:



carter bind # named-checkzone espersunited.com db.espersunited.com
dns_master_load: db.espersunited.com:37: www.espersunited.com: CNAME and
other data
zone espersunited.com/IN: loading from master file db.espersunited.com
failed: CNAME and other data
zone espersunited.com/IN: not loaded due to errors.
carter bind #


And here's the4 zone file itself:

carter bind # cat db.espersunited.com
$TTL 3h
espersunited.com.  IN SOA carter.espersunited.com.
michael.carter.espersunited.com. (

   1	;Serial
   3h 	;Refresh after 3 hours
   1h	;Retry after one hour
   1w	;Expire after one week
   1h ) ;Negative caching TTL of 1 hour

;Name server(s)
espersunited.com. 	IN NS carter.espersunited.com.
ns.espersunited.com 	IN NS carter.espersunited.com.
cam.espersunited.com 	IN NS camille.espersunited.com.
cat.espersunited.com	IN NS catherine.espersunited.com.

;Host addresses
localhost.espersunited.com.     IN A 127.0.0.1
carter.espersunited.com.        IN A 192.168.0.2
camille.espersunited.com.       IN A 192.168.0.3
catherine.espersunited.com.     IN A 192.168.0.4
bullet.espersunited.com.        IN A 192.168.0.5
espersunited.com.               IN A 192.168.0.2
www.espersunited.com.		IN A 192.168.0.2


;MX records
espersunited.com.                 IN MX   0 carter.espersunited.com.
carter.espersunited.com.          IN MX   1 carter.espersunited.com.

;CNAME records
mail.espersunited.com.          IN CNAME carter.espersunited.com.
imap.espersunited.com.          IN CNAME carter.espersunited.com.
smtp.espersunited.com.          IN CNAME carter.espersunited.com.
pop.espersunited.com.           IN CNAME carter.espersunited.com.
pop3.espersunited.com.          IN CNAME carter.espersunited.com.
ftp.espersunited.com.           IN CNAME carter.espersunited.com.
www.espersunited.com.           IN CNAME carter.espersunited.com.
festival.espersunited.com.      IN CNAME camille.espersunited.com.

carter bind #

I can't see anything wrong with it, but when I try to dig
carter.espersunited.com, I get
carter bind # dig carter.espersunited.com

; <<>> DiG 9.9.3-P2 <<>> carter.espersunited.com
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: SERVFAIL, id: 46676
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1

;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 4096
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;carter.espersunited.com.	IN	A

;; Query time: 0 msec
;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1)
;; WHEN: Sun Jan 26 16:46:11 CST 2014
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 52

carter bind #


SERVFAIL.  What am I missing?


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