[ale] bind 9.3.3 on Centos 5

[Randy Ramsdell]

Jerry Yu wrote:
> on CentOS 5 (RHEL 5), you can use 'system-config-bind-gui', a nice 
> GUI, to configure it from scratch too.
>

This a server without X.

> On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 11:56 AM, Jerry Yu <jjj863 at gmail.com 
> <mailto:jjj863 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     the last section in named.conf, I believe you have extra '.zone'
>     suffix for the zone declaration, thus don't really have a section
>     for 'dailyezinefun.com <http://dailyezinefun.com>' itself.
>
>     Should have been something like this:
>     zone "dailyezinefun.com <http://dailyezinefun.com>"  IN {
>
>                    type master;
>                    file "zone/dailyezinefun.com.zone";
>     };
>
Holy crap you are correct. After 5 revisions of the named.conf and the 
zone file, I completely missed that. Thanks for noticing this.

>     Also, modern distros have named chrooted by default, so your zone
>     file may need to under /var/named/chroot/var/named/zone
>
>

Yes this was and soon to be chroot'ed. I was simplifying the config 
until everything worked. Since you found my typo, I will put this back 
in jail, add internal/external views and tweek the conf file.
>
>
>     On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 10:00 AM, Randy Ramsdell
>     <rramsdell at livedatagroup.com <mailto:rramsdell at livedatagroup.com>>
>     wrote:
>
>         Hi,
>
>         This is the first time I have had to set up named from scratch
>         starting
>         with a new domain and I don't know the ins and outs of this
>         process.
>
>         We registered a domain. ( dailyezinefun.com
>         <http://dailyezinefun.com> ) a couple of days ago and I
>         set the domain to point to our nameserver. I have tried so many
>         configurations but nothing seems to work and I now have the
>         most basic
>         setup for ease of understanding.
>
>         So.
>
>         ns1.dailyezinefun.com <http://ns1.dailyezinefun.com> ==
>         206.212.244.202 <http://206.212.244.202> --- resolves : no
>         other hosts
>         do however.
>
>         named.conf - simplified for testing
>
>         options
>         {
>                allow-query { any; };
>                recursion yes;
>                allow-recursion {
>                        127.0.0.1 <http://127.0.0.1>;
>                        206.212.244.202 <http://206.212.244.202>;
>         };
>                listen-on {
>                        127.0.0.1 <http://127.0.0.1>;
>                        206.212.244.202 <http://206.212.244.202>;
>                };
>         };
>         logging
>         {
>                channel default_debug {
>                        file "data/named.run";
>                        severity dynamic;
>                };
>                channel named_queries {
>                         file "data/named.queries" versions 5 size 20M;
>                         severity debug;
>                         print-time yes;
>                    };
>         };
>                zone "."  {
>                        type hint;
>                        file "named.root";
>                };
>                 zone "dailyezinefun.com.zone"  {
>                        type master;
>                        file "zone/dailyezinefun.com.zone";
>                };
>
>         ZONE FILE: "/var/named/zone/dailyezinefun.com.zone" -- it has gone
>         through many iterations but this is the latest which shows no
>         errors
>         when starting named.
>
>         $TTL 1D
>         @       IN      SOA     dailyezinefun.com
>         <http://dailyezinefun.com>. admin.dailyezinefun.com
>         <http://admin.dailyezinefun.com>. (
>
>                                        2007020400   ; Serial
>                                        10800           ; Refresh after
>         3 hours
>                                        3600            ; Retry after 1
>         hour
>                                        604800          ; Expire after
>         1 week
>                                        86400 )         ; Minimum TTL
>         of 1 day
>
>                        NS              dailyezinefun.com
>         <http://dailyezinefun.com>.
>
>                        NS              ns1.dailyezinefun.com
>         <http://ns1.dailyezinefun.com>.
>                        MX      1       mx202.dailyezinefun.com
>         <http://mx202.dailyezinefun.com>.
>                        TXT             "Dailyezinefun.com: The real deal"
>
>         localhost       A               127.0.0.1 <http://127.0.0.1>
>         ns1             A               206.212.244.202
>         <http://206.212.244.202>
>         mx202           A               206.212.244.202
>         <http://206.212.244.202>
>
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Holy crap you are correct. After 5 revisions of the named.conf and the 
zone file, I completely missed that. Thanks for noticing this.