[SOLVED] Problem w/ split DNS on Ubuntu 6.06

[LittleLebowski]

I followed the steps on the bind9 install for Ubuntu exactly, changing only mydomain.com to a different name. Not working. I would really appreciate any insight offered. This is 5.0.5

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cat /etc/bind/named.conf
options {
directory "/var/cache/bind";

query-source address * port 53;

forwarders {
71.242.0.12; 71.252.0.12;
};

auth-nxdomain no; # conform to RFC1035

};

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cat /etc/bind/db.otechmail.com
; BIND data file for otechmail.com
;
$TTL 604800
@ IN SOA mail.otechmail.com. admin.otechmail.com. (
090727 ; Serial
604800 ; Refresh
86400 ; Retry
2419200 ; Expire
604800 ) ; Negative Cache TTL
;
@ IN NS mail
IN MX 10 mail
IN A 10.63.60.86
mail IN A 10.63.60.86
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cat /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
10.63.60.87 mail.otechmail.com mail






# The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts
::1 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
fe00::0 ip6-localnet
ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix
ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
ff02::2 ip6-allrouters
ff02::3 ip6-allhosts

[LittleLebowski]

nslookup otechmail.com
Server: 10.63.60.87
Address: 10.63.60.87#53

** server can't find otechmail.com: NXDOMAIN

[jholder]

You need to tell named what the zone is and where the file is. See this blog post:
http://www.zimbra.com/blog/archives/...ogether_1.html Part 2

[LittleLebowski]

Using dnsmasq was ridiculously easy compared to the BIND setup. I recommend for anyone searching for answers to external LDAP problems that they configure Zimbra with it's own LDAP initially and then solve LDAP problems via the web Admin GUI.

[uxbod]

From your experiences perhaps you could write a Wiki article on this ?

Found this in a old post from Klug which should help others if they wish to use DNSmasq instead :- In a DNS bind? Get Out with dnsmasq