Zimbra Linux Install

[Gazoo2]

I am trying to install Zimbra to see if it will work on my mobile windows v.6

I have installed Ubuntu 8.04 LTS like the install guide here and Have a problem with LDAP errors. From what I read I had to set up split DNS. Well now the install is corupt and I have to install a new OS.

Can anyone point me to the most easiest install for a person that is still learning Linux. Seems Ubuntu works great out of the box but I have had problems loading other programs on to it. And everytime I look at BIND9 configs, they are all different, no 2 sites have the same info that I can use to compare the name.config.*** files

I am thinking of trying CentOS or SUSE, the CentOS Guide looks pretty straight forward, if anyone can help me here it would be greatly appreciated as I would rather not install 10 different systems to see which one is the most newbie freindly.

[uxbod]

Welcome to the forums

Wiki :: Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Zimbra Install Guide

[Gazoo2]

so I guess Ubuntu is the easiest, I am having trouble with split DNS.
I wonder if anyone can help me with it.

I have to servers running Primary is ...........106 secondary is ........107

This is my output from nslookup (some numbers replaced with xxx)
-------------------------------------------------------------------
root@IBM1:/var/cache/bind/internal# nslookup 206.xxx.xxx.128
Server: 192.168.1.106
Address: 192.168.1.106#53

Non-authoritative answer:
128.xxx.xxx.206.in-addr.arpa name = mail.18p.ca.

Authoritative answers can be found from:
xxx.xxx.206.in-addr.arpa nameserver = ns.teksavvy.com.
xxx.xxx.206.in-addr.arpa nameserver = ns2.teksavvy.com.
ns2.teksavvy.com internet address = 65.39.196.215
ns.teksavvy.com internet address = 65.39.192.130
---------------------------------------------------------------

root@IBM1:/var/cache/bind/internal# nslookup 18p (NO .ca?)
;; Got SERVFAIL reply from 192.168.1.106, trying next server
Server: 192.168.1.106
Address: 192.168.1.106#53

** server can't find 18p: NXDOMAIN
------------------------------------------------------------
Above.....I forgot to type in .ca on the end and my server responded?

root@IBM1:/var/cache/bind/internal# nslookup 18p.ca
;; Got SERVFAIL reply from 192.168.1.106, trying next server
Server: 192.168.1.107
Address: 192.168.1.107#53

*** Can't find 18p.ca: No answer
----------------------------------------------------------------
When I do the nslookup (18p.ca) my first server has a SERVFAIL message. Here is my setup.

/etc/hosts FILE----------------------------------

127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
192.168.1.106 IBM1.18p.ca IBM1

# 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


/etc/bind/named.conf.options FILE--------------------------

query-source address * port 53;
forwarders {
206.248.154.22; 69.28.199.126;
};

/etc/resolv.conf FILE------------------------------------

search 18p.ca
nameserver 192.168.1.106
nameserver 192.168.1.107
nameserver 206.248.154.22
nameserver 69.28.199.126
nameserver 192.168.1.1
domain 18p.ca

/etc/bind/named.conf.local FILE--------------------------------

acl internals {
127.0.0.0/8;
192.168.1.106/24;
192.168.1.1/24;
};
view "internal" {
match-clients { internals; };
recursion yes;
zone "18p.ca" {
type master;
file "/var/cache/bind/internal/18p.ca";
};
zone "1.168.192.in-addr.arpa" {
type master;
file "/var/cache/bind/internal/1.168.192.in-addr.arpa";
};
};
view "external" {
match-clients { any; };
recursion no;
zone "18p.ca" {
type master;
file "/var/cache/bind/external/18p.ca";
};
};


/var/cache/bind/external/18p.ca FILE------------------------------

; 18p.ca
$TTL 604800
@ IN SOA IBM1.18p.ca. 18p.ca. (
2006020201 ; Serial
604800 ; Refresh
86400 ; Retry
2419200 ; Expire
604800); Negative Cache TTL
;
@ IN NS IBM1
IN MX 10 mail
;
IN A 206.248.137.128
IBM1 IN A 206.248.137.128
mail IN A 206.248.137.128 ; We have our mail server somewhere else.
www IN A 206.248.137.128
static IN A 206.248.137.128

/var/cache/bind/internal/18p.ca FILE---------------------------------

;18p.ca internal.db
$TTL 604800
@ IN SOA IBM1.18p.ca. admin.18p.ca. (
2006020202 ; Serial
604800 ; Refresh
86400 ; Retry
2419200 ; Expire
604800); Negative Cache TTL
;
@ IN NS IBM1
IN MX 10 mail
IN A 192.168.1.106
IBM1 IN A 192.168.1.106
mail IN A 192.168.1.106
ftp IN A 192.168.1.106
www IN A 192.168.1.106


/var/cache/bind/internal/1.168.192.in-addr.arpa FILE-------------------

; 1.168.192.in-addr.arpa IBM1.18p.ca
$TTL 86400
@ IN SOA 18p.ca. admin.18p.ca. (
200601301 ; Serial
604800 ; Refresh
86400 ; Retry
2419200 ; Expire
86400 ) ; Negative Cache TTL
IN NS IBM1.18p.ca.
106 PTR IBM1.18p.ca.
; put your fixed ip devices here...the last digits in the address a.b.c.xx
; 10 PTR vox.example.org.
; 15 PTR static.example.org


I can get my DNS running with /etc/init.d/bind9 restart but I don't know where to look for the log file or how to understand the errors.

[phoenix]

Use only the IP address of your DNS server that's installed on the Zimbra server in your resolv.conf, you should also use a hostname that's all lowercase. Post the output of the following:

cat /etc/hosts
cat /etc/resolv/conf
dig yourdomain.com mx
dig yourdomain.com any
host `hostname` <-- use backticks not single quotes

[Gazoo2]

# cat /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
192.168.1.106 IBM1.18p.ca IBM1

# 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

# cat /etc/resolv.conf
search 18p.ca
nameserver 192.168.1.106
# nameserver 192.168.1.107
# nameserver 206.248.154.22
# nameserver 69.28.199.126
# nameserver 192.168.1.1
# domain 18p.ca

# dig 18p.ca mx

; <<>> DiG 9.4.2-P2 <<>> 18p.ca mx
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: SERVFAIL, id: 17053
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;18p.ca. IN MX

;; Query time: 1 msec
;; SERVER: 192.168.1.106#53(192.168.1.106)
;; WHEN: Tue May 26 11:39:34 2009
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 33

# dig 18p.ca any

; <<>> DiG 9.4.2-P2 <<>> 18p.ca any
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: SERVFAIL, id: 26520
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;18p.ca. IN ANY

;; Query time: 1 msec
;; SERVER: 192.168.1.106#53(192.168.1.106)
;; WHEN: Tue May 26 11:41:02 2009
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 33

# host `hostname`
Host IBM1.18p.ca.18p.ca not found: 2(SERVFAIL)

Ok I made the change to the resolv.conf file for 1 server, I didn't change the host name in to all lowercase as I am not sure all the files it will effect.

# host `hostname`
root@IBM1:/var# Host IBM1.18p.ca.18p.ca not found: 2(SERVFAIL)
bash: syntax error near unexpected token `('

and now # host `hostname` has no reply just brings me back to the cammand prompt

# nslookup 18p.ca
Server: 192.168.1.106
Address: 192.168.1.106#53

** server can't find 18p.ca.18p.ca: SERVFAIL

And now nslookup is is coming back with the server working from 106,
not sure if this is ok tho (** server can't find 18p.ca.18p.ca: SERVFAIL)

[phoenix]

Those results indicate you have no A or MX records defined in the DNS server that's installed on this IP address: 192.168.1.106 You also did not change the FQDN of your server in the hosts file to lower case, please fix those problems.

[Gazoo2]

well I tried to change the hostname in the host file to lowercase but when I reboot it comes up in uppercase again, so I don't know what to change, I am going to reload ubuntu again and start a new install.

[uxbod]

/etc/hostname

[Gazoo2]

Can someone tell me how I would get bind to see some files that are listed below, being a split dns. my server still says IBM1 when it should be lowercase, I have tried to change it but my changes haven't worked.

named.conf.local---------------------------------------------

acl internals {
127.0.0.0/8;
192.168.1.1/24;
};
view "internal" {
match-clients { internals; };
recursion yes;
zone "tetrasomy18p.ca" {
type master;
file "/var/cache/bind/internal/tetrasomy18p.ca";
};
zone "1.168.192.in-addr.arpa" {
type master;
file "/var/cache/bind/internal/1.168.192.in-addr.arpa";
};
};
view "external" {
match-clients { any; };
recursion no;
zone "tetrasomy18p.ca" {
type master;
file "/var/cache/bind/external/tetrasomy18p.ca";
};
};
-----------------------------------------------------------------------


May 28 10:02:30 IBM1 named[6651]: zone tetrasomy18p.ca/IN/internal: loading from master file /var/cache/bind/internal/tetrasomy18p.ca failed: file not found
May 28 10:02:30 IBM1 named[6651]: zone tetrasomy18p.ca/IN/external: loading from master file /var/cache/bind/external/tetrasomy18p.ca failed: file not found
May 28 10:02:30 IBM1 named[6651]: running
May 28 10:07:58 IBM1 named[6651]: shutting down: flushing changes
May 28 10:07:58 IBM1 named[6651]: stopping command channel on 127.0.0.1#953
May 28 10:07:58 IBM1 named[6651]: stopping command channel on ::1#953
May 28 10:07:58 IBM1 named[6651]: no longer listening on ::#53
May 28 10:07:58 IBM1 named[6651]: no longer listening on 127.0.0.1#53
May 28 10:07:58 IBM1 named[6651]: no longer listening on 192.168.1.106#53
May 28 10:07:58 IBM1 named[6651]: exiting
May 28 10:08:00 IBM1 named[6721]: starting BIND 9.4.2-P2 -u bind -t /var/lib/named
May 28 10:08:00 IBM1 named[6721]: found 1 CPU, using 1 worker thread
May 28 10:08:00 IBM1 named[6721]: loading configuration from '/etc/bind/named.conf'
May 28 10:08:00 IBM1 named[6721]: /etc/bind/named.conf:12: when using 'view' statements, all zones must be in views
May 28 10:08:00 IBM1 named[6721]: listening on IPv6 interfaces, port 53
May 28 10:08:00 IBM1 named[6721]: listening on IPv4 interface lo, 127.0.0.1#53
May 28 10:08:00 IBM1 named[6721]: listening on IPv4 interface eth0, 192.168.1.106#53
May 28 10:08:00 IBM1 named[6721]: /etc/bind/named.conf.options:4: using specific query-source port suppresses port randomization and can be insecure.
May 28 10:08:00 IBM1 named[6721]: automatic empty zone: view internal: 127.IN-ADDR.ARPA
May 28 10:08:00 IBM1 named[6721]: automatic empty zone: view internal: 254.169.IN-ADDR.ARPA
May 28 10:08:00 IBM1 named[6721]: automatic empty zone: view internal: 2.0.192.IN-ADDR.ARPA
May 28 10:08:00 IBM1 named[6721]: automatic empty zone: view internal: 255.255.255.255.IN-ADDR.ARPA
May 28 10:08:00 IBM1 named[6721]: automatic empty zone: view internal: 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. 0.0.0.0.0.0.0.IP6.ARPA
May 28 10:08:00 IBM1 named[6721]: automatic empty zone: view internal: 1.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0. 0.0.0.0.0.0.0.IP6.ARPA
May 28 10:08:00 IBM1 named[6721]: automatic empty zone: view internal: D.F.IP6.ARPA
May 28 10:08:00 IBM1 named[6721]: automatic empty zone: view internal: 8.E.F.IP6.ARPA
May 28 10:08:00 IBM1 named[6721]: automatic empty zone: view internal: 9.E.F.IP6.ARPA
May 28 10:08:00 IBM1 named[6721]: automatic empty zone: view internal: A.E.F.IP6.ARPA
May 28 10:08:00 IBM1 named[6721]: automatic empty zone: view internal: B.E.F.IP6.ARPA
May 28 10:08:00 IBM1 named[6721]: /etc/bind/named.conf.options:4: using specific query-source port suppresses port randomization and can be insecure.
May 28 10:08:00 IBM1 named[6721]: /etc/bind/named.conf.options:4: using specific query-source port suppresses port randomization and can be insecure.
May 28 10:08:00 IBM1 named[6721]: command channel listening on 127.0.0.1#953
May 28 10:08:00 IBM1 named[6721]: command channel listening on ::1#953
May 28 10:08:00 IBM1 named[6721]: zone 1.168.192.in-addr.arpa/IN/internal: loading from master file /var/cache/bind/internal/1.168.192.in-addr.arpa failed: file not found
May 28 10:08:00 IBM1 named[6721]: zone tetrasomy18p.ca/IN/internal: loading from master file /var/cache/bind/internal/tetrasomy18p.ca failed: file not found
May 28 10:08:00 IBM1 named[6721]: zone tetrasomy18p.ca/IN/external: loading from master file /var/cache/bind/external/tetrasomy18p.ca failed: file not found

[Gazoo2]

Does anyone know why my server can not see the files listed in the above post even tho they are all correct in the named.conf.local file, do I need to touch or symlink anything?