[SOLVED] i really need help for configuring split dns

[hercules]

Hello all,

i tried 3 long days to get "split dns" work, but with no success. The result is that can send mails, or receive mails, but no both.

I installed Zimbra successfully and zmcontrol repports that all systems are running correct. Also the installes named seems to run, but the setup is not correct, because sending and receiving will not work at same time. I need to change the MTA Hostname in the web admin-interface.

My TCP-Data:

I use a router wit NAT firewall.

Router IP 192.168.178.1
Nameserver Networkcard IP: 192.168.178.5
Hostname namserver: mailserver.sinsheim-wetter.de
mail-domain which will need for mail addresses: sinsheim.wetter.de
External IP: 194.231.187.137
System is Suse 10.2
Zimbra is the current open source release

Here is my current named config. Could you have a look for any errors please?



// Default named.conf generated by install of bind-9.2.4-2
options {
directory "/var/bin/named";
dump-file "/var/bin/named/data/cache_dump.db";
statistics-file "/var/named/data/named_stats.txt";
forwarders { 192.168.178.1 ; };
};
include "/etc/rndc.key";
// We are the master server for server.example.com
zone "mailserver.sinsheim-wetter.de" {
type master;
file "db.mailserver.sinsheim-wetter.de";
};


/var/bin/named/db.mailserver.sinsheim-wetter.de:


; Addresses and other host information.
;
@ IN SOA sinsheim-wetter.de. hostmaster.sinsheim-wetter.de. (
10118 ; Serial
43200 ; Refresh
3600 ; Retry
3600000 ; Expire
2592000 ) ; Minimum
; Define the nameservers and the mail servers
IN NS <192.168.178.5>
IN A <192.168.178.5>
IN MX 10 mailserver.sinsheim-wetter.de.

Off course the mx entries for sinsheim-wetter.de on the namserver at my provider is set correctly! When i use MS-Exchange, all works well without problems. Just with Zimbra i have this trouble.


Iam really not sure whats wrong and i have search the whole web and forum, but nothing does work.

Thanks for you assistance

Thomas

[dwmtractor]

Thomas, this may not be your only problem, but this line

forwarders { 192.168.178.1 ; };

is pointing to the address you said is your router address. Unless you have your router configured as a DNS proxy, that won't work. The forwarders have to be DNS to whom bind can direct queries that it does not have the answer for. . .in my case they are the DNS servers provided to me by my ISP.

You might take a look at this wiki article I wrote on installing to Ubuntu. I go over the installation and configuration of bind9 step-by-step, and at least for me these steps worked.

HTH,

Dan

[hercules]

ok..thanks for the first.

Do you tihnk, that the other config values are correct so it should work, or there are may another errors in thies configs that could make trouble?

Thomas

[apatosaur.9]

Hi

I think your problem is that you are using "mailserver.sinsheim-wetter.de"

zone "mailserver.sinsheim-wetter.de"

as your domain, instead of using "sinsheim-wetter.de"
so change in your named.conf or named.conf.inc

// We are the master server for server.example.com
zone "sinsheim-wetter.de" {
type master;
file "db.mailserver.sinsheim-wetter.de";
};

then you'd rather have in your zone file
@ IN SOA sinsheim-wetter.de. hostmaster.sinsheim-wetter.de. (
10118 ; Serial
43200 ; Refresh
3600 ; Retry
3600000 ; Expire
2592000 ) ; Minimum

IN NS 192.168.178.5

IN MX 10 mailserver.sinsheim-wetter.de.

IN A 192.168.178.5

mailserver.sinsheim-wetter.de. IN A 194.231.187.137 ; notice the "." at end of 'de.'


regards

Mac

[randall]

what do you have in your /etc/hosts?

[hercules]

hello togther,

i changed all like your told me. Iam not sure its correct, because i havent install Zimbra yes, since it should be only installed when Split Dns is working.

When i type nslookup sinsheim-wetter.de i get "server cabt find sinsheim-wetter.de". Just the same with mailserver.sinsheim-wetter.de.

When i ping sinsheim-wetter.de i get "unknown host". and with mailserver.sinsheim-wetter.de i get a response with 192.168.178.5

Iam not so sure, but the nslookup schouls respone the internal IP...or?

In my host is

127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost

192.168.178.5 mailserver.sinsheim-wetter.de mailserver


in my resolv.conf:
nameserver 192.168.178.5
search sinsheim-wetter.de

Any further ideas?

Thomas

[soxfan]

The first question I would ask is are you sure the DNS server (named) is running? Check the system processes to be sure it is. If it's not running then you need to start it. If it is running then I'd try stopping and starting it, and then look at the system logs, which should give you some information is things aren't configured properly.

[hercules]

hi,

yes named is running! The logs shows no errors.

But im not sure about the following:

When i configure a zone in named.conf i must create the zone file. Does named check this file exits? I ask, because when i delete this zone file, named is starting without errors about the not existing zone file.

[soxfan]

I don't know SuSe that well, but it's possible that the system is running a chroot version of BIND. Search your system for other occurrences of the named.conf file. Also look in the system logs for any references to what named.conf file is being read.

[hercules]

hi..thanks a lot. After many hours of testiings i found a working solution.
Zimbra works fine now

Thomas