Bind installation

[soundmax123]

I am trying to install bind on my RHEL server to resolve the issues of mot receiving mails because i am behind an ISP's router and a firewall.

I've ran these codes:
yum install bind
yum install caching-nameserver
cp named.caching-nameserver.conf named.conf (because i dont have a file called named.conf after bind installation).

touch mydomain.com.zone
touch mydomain.com.rev.zone

chown root:named mydomain*


Can anybody tell me what next to do?

[uxbod]

Follow the examples in Split DNS - Zimbra :: Wiki though you should not require the necessity to install a caching-nameserver.

[soundmax123]

After installation of Bind an the configuration of the DNS;
i did nslookup servername.mydomain.com and i got this message:
Server: 192.168.2.100
Address: 192.168.2.100#53

** server can't find servername.mydomain.com: NXDOMAIN


what do i do?

[uxbod]

Check /var/log/messages for any BIND error messages.

[soundmax123]

there are no errors on bind.

what do i do

[uxbod]

Please post output from

cat /etc/hosts
cat /etc/resolv.conf
dig youdomain mx
dig youdomain any
host `hostname` <- note backticks and not single quotes

Plus your BIND named.conf and the associated zone files.

[soundmax123]

the output of cat /etc/hosts file:

# Do not remove the following line, or various programs
# that require network functionality will fail.
127.0.0.1 alpha.paletteng.com alpha localhost.localdomain localhost
::1 localhost6.localdomain6 localhost6
192.168.2.188 alpha.paletteng.com alpha


the ouput from cat /etc/resolv.conf file is:

search paletteng.com
nameserver 192.168.2.100
nameserver 192.168.2.188


the output from dig mydomain.com is:

; <<>> DiG 9.3.4-P1 <<>> paletteng.com mx
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 31715
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 3

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;paletteng.com. IN MX

;; ANSWER SECTION:
paletteng.com. 14400 IN MX 0 paletteng.com.

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
paletteng.com. 6717 IN NS ns2.hostingseries43.net.
paletteng.com. 6717 IN NS ns.hostingseries43.net.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
paletteng.com. 6717 IN A 85.13.243.2
ns2.hostingseries43.net. 150247 IN A 85.13.243.3
ns.hostingseries43.net. 150247 IN A 85.13.243.2

;; Query time: 3915 msec
;; SERVER: 192.168.2.100#53(192.168.2.100)
;; WHEN: Tue Feb 3 13:08:07 2009
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 149

the dig mydomain any gives:

; <<>> DiG 9.3.4-P1 <<>> paletteng.com any
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 59774
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 4, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 3

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;paletteng.com. IN ANY

;; ANSWER SECTION:
paletteng.com. 12890 IN MX 0 paletteng.com.
paletteng.com. 5207 IN A 85.13.243.2
paletteng.com. 5207 IN NS ns2.hostingseries43.net.
paletteng.com. 5207 IN NS ns.hostingseries43.net.

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
paletteng.com. 5207 IN NS ns.hostingseries43.net.
paletteng.com. 5207 IN NS ns2.hostingseries43.net.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
paletteng.com. 5207 IN A 85.13.243.2
ns2.hostingseries43.net. 148737 IN A 85.13.243.3
ns.hostingseries43.net. 148737 IN A 85.13.243.2

;; Query time: 4 msec
;; SERVER: 192.168.2.100#53(192.168.2.100)
;; WHEN: Tue Feb 3 13:33:17 2009
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 193


host `hostname` gives:

Host alpha.paletteng.com not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)


paletteng.com.rev.zone file

$ORIGIN 2.168.192.in-addr.arpa. ;

$TTL 86400 @ IN SOA alpha.paletteng.com. root.localhost. (

2008020402 ; serial

10800 ; REFRESH 3 hour

10800 ; retry after 3 hours

604800 ; expire after 1 week

86400) ; Min TTL of 1 day 2.168.192.in-addr.arpa. NS alpha.paletteng.com.

188.2.168.192.in-addr.arpa. IN PTR paletteng.com.

paletteng.com.zone file:

$ORIGIN paletteng.com.

$TTL 3600 @ IN SOA alpha.paletteng.com. root.localhost. (

2008020403 ; Serial 4char year 2mm 2dd 2vv

10800 ; REFRESH

10800 ; retry after 3 hours which forces it on the slave

604800 ; expire after 1 week

86400 ) ; minimum TTL of 1 day paletteng.com. IN NS alpha.paletteng.com. ;note paletteng.com. IN A 192.168.2.188

www IN A 192.168.2.188

site1.paletteng.com. IN A 192.168.2.188

site2.paletteng.com. IN A 192.168.2.188

localhost A 127.0.0.1



the named.conf file is

//
// named.caching-nameserver.conf
//
// Provided by Red Hat caching-nameserver package to configure the
// ISC BIND named(8) DNS server as a caching only nameserver
// (as a localhost DNS resolver only).
//
// See /usr/share/doc/bind*/sample/ for example named configuration files.
//
// DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - use system-config-bind or an editor
// to create named.conf - edits to this file will be lost on
// caching-nameserver package upgrade.
//
options {
listen-on port 53 { 127.0.0.1; };
listen-on-v6 port 53 { ::1; };
directory "/var/named";
dump-file "/var/named/data/cache_dump.db";
statistics-file "/var/named/data/named_stats.txt";
memstatistics-file "/var/named/data/named_mem_stats.txt";

// Those options should be used carefully because they disable port
// randomization
// query-source port 53;
// query-source-v6 port 53;

allow-query { localhost; };
};
logging {
channel default_debug {
file "data/named.run";
severity dynamic;
};
};
view localhost_resolver {
match-clients { localhost; };
match-destinations { localhost; };
recursion yes;
include "/etc/named.rfc1912.zones";
};
// named.rfc1912.zones:
//
// Provided by Red Hat caching-nameserver package
//
// ISC BIND named zone configuration for zones recommended by
// RFC 1912 section 4.1 : localhost TLDs and address zones
//
// See /usr/share/doc/bind*/sample/ for example named configuration files.
//
zone "." IN {
type hint;
file "named.ca";
};

zone "localdomain" IN {
type master;
file "localdomain.zone";
allow-update { none; };
};

zone "localhost" IN {
type master;
file "localhost.zone";
allow-update { none; };
};

zone "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa" IN {
type master;
file "named.local";
allow-update { none; };
};

zone "0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0. 0.0.0.0.0.0.ip6.arpa" IN {
type master;
file "named.ip6.local";
allow-update { none; };
};

zone "255.in-addr.arpa" IN {
type master;
file "named.broadcast";
allow-update { none; };
};

zone "0.in-addr.arpa" IN {
type master;
file "named.zero";
allow-update { none; };
};

[phoenix]

The simple answer is, you have no A or MX records for your server. Please check the Split DNS article again and follow those instructions.

[soundmax123]

the Split DNS document is not clear enough,

I cant find my named.conf file after the installation of Bind and even if i create a named.conf file,i would nt know what the contents will be.

Is there any other documentation better or GUI configuration?

[uxbod]

Read, read and read again ... Quick HOWTO : Ch18 : Configuring DNS - Linux Home Networking

Before proceeding understand how and why BIND works as it will help you in the future.