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Date:      Thu, 6 Jan 2000 19:26:30 -0500
From:      "Martin Gignac" <martyg@sympatico.ca>
To:        "Chris Manjoine" <chris-manjoine@uiowa.edu>, <freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Primary DNS setup problems
Message-ID:  <000d01bf58a5$fbefad20$33f3acce@martingignac>
References:  <4.2.2.20000106150136.00ab4f00@mail.vpr.uiowa.edu>
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I just set up a secondary BIND 8.1.2 server (on a FreeBSD machine) at the company I work for that's a slave to a primary BIND 4.9.5 running on Windows NT 4.0.

It took all of five minutes to set up and get working, all without a hitch. I used the PROTO.localhost.rev shell script to create the localhost.rev file. After adding the zones for which it would slave, I started the thing, and it simply worked.

My named.conf file is basically the stock one that comes with FreeBSD, with my zones added in.

You gotta make sure you either don't have a /etc/resolv.conf file, or that /etc/resolv.conf looks kinda like this:

domain        <INSERT DOMAIN NAME HERE>
nameserver    0.0.0.0
nameserver    <INSERT OTHER KNOWN SERVERS YOU ARE
nameserver    AUTHORIZED TO USE>

The /etc/resolv.conf isn't necessary on your FreeBSD machine running the BIND server, as it will talk to named directly, but if you have one and the first nameserver is 0.0.0.0, you'll basically have the same result.

Can you expand on what you mean by 'doesn't work at all'? Does the command 'tail /var/log/messages' show any messages about named running starting up correctly (or not)? Can you use nslookup on your server?

Let me know,

-Martin

----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Chris Manjoine 
  To: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG 
  Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2000 4:32 PM
  Subject: Primary DNS setup problems


  Ok I have set up DNS on a redhat box before and I thought this would be straight forward I have added the configurations in my named.conf file to goto my zone but nothing happens. I can't get it to work at all 


  named.conf

  options {
          directory "/etc/namedb";
          pid-file "/var/run/named.pid";
          };

  zone "." {
          type hint;
          file "/etc/namedb/db.cache";
          };

  zone "0.0.127.IN-ADDR.ARPA" {
          type master;
          file "/etc/namedb/0.0.127.IN-ADDR.ARPA.hosts";
          };
                 


  I want to get the caching name server setup first to avoid any simple errors but this will not even work.
  the db.cache is the same as everyone else has and the 0.0.127.IN-ADDR.ARPA.hosts

  @               IN      SOA     ns.linux.bogus. hostmaster.linux.bogus. (
                                  1       ; Serial
                                  8H      ; Refresh
                                  2H      ; Retry
                                  1W      ; Expire
                                  1D)     ; Minimum TTL
                          NS      ns.linux.bogus.
  1                       PTR     localhost.



  rc.conf file stuff NOTE THAT I AM USING A DHCP CLIENT THAT LINKS TO A STATIC IP

  # -- sysinstall generated deltas -- #
  network_interfaces="ep0 lo0"
  ifconfig_ep0="DHCP"
  # -- sysinstall generated deltas -- #
  named_enable="YES"

  Other info available at request~                      

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<DIV><FONT size=2>I just set up a secondary&nbsp;BIND 8.1.2 server (on a FreeBSD 
machine) at the company I work for that's a slave to a primary BIND 4.9.5 
running on Windows NT 4.0.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV>&nbsp;</DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>It took all of five minutes to set up and get working, all 
without a hitch. I used the PROTO.localhost.rev shell script to create the 
localhost.rev file. After adding the zones for which it would slave, I started 
the thing, and it simply worked.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV>&nbsp;</DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>My named.conf file is basically the stock one that comes with 
FreeBSD, with my zones added in.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV>&nbsp;</DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>You gotta make sure you either don't have a /etc/resolv.conf 
file, or that /etc/resolv.conf looks kinda like this:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV>&nbsp;</DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>domain&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;INSERT DOMAIN 
NAME HERE&gt;</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>nameserver&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 0.0.0.0</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>nameserver&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;INSERT OTHER KNOWN SERVERS 
YOU ARE</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>nameserver&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; AUTHORIZED TO 
USE&gt;</FONT></DIV>
<DIV>&nbsp;</DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>The /etc/resolv.conf isn't necessary on your FreeBSD machine 
running the BIND server, as it will talk to named directly, but if you have one 
and the first nameserver is 0.0.0.0, you'll basically have the same 
result.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV>&nbsp;</DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>Can you expand on what you mean by 'doesn't work at all'? Does 
the command 'tail /var/log/messages' show any messages about named running 
starting up correctly (or not)? Can you use nslookup on your 
server?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV>&nbsp;</DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>Let me know,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV>&nbsp;</DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>-Martin</FONT></DIV>
<DIV>&nbsp;</DIV>
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style="BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px">
  <DIV 
  style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> 
  <A href="mailto:chris-manjoine@uiowa.edu" title=chris-manjoine@uiowa.edu>Chris 
  Manjoine</A> </DIV>
  <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A 
  href="mailto:freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG" 
  title=freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG>freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG</A> </DIV>
  <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, January 06, 2000 4:32 
  PM</DIV>
  <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Primary DNS setup problems</DIV>
  <DIV><BR></DIV>Ok I have set up DNS on a redhat box before and I thought this 
  would be straight forward I have added the configurations in my named.conf 
  file to goto my zone but nothing happens. I can't get it to work at all 
  <BR><BR><BR>named.conf<BR><BR>options 
  {<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; directory 
  "/etc/namedb";<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; pid-file 
  "/var/run/named.pid";<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
  };<BR><BR>zone "." {<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; type 
  hint;<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; file 
  "/etc/namedb/db.cache";<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
  };<BR><BR>zone "0.0.127.IN-ADDR.ARPA" 
  {<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; type 
  master;<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; file 
  "/etc/namedb/0.0.127.IN-ADDR.ARPA.hosts";<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
  };<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
  <BR><BR><BR>I want to get the caching name server setup first to avoid any 
  simple errors but this will not even work.<BR>the db.cache is the same as 
  everyone else has and the 0.0.127.IN-ADDR.ARPA.hosts<BR><BR><FONT 
  face="Courier New, Courier">@&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
  IN&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; SOA&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ns.linux.bogus. 
  hostmaster.linux.bogus. 
  (<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
  1&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ; 
  Serial<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
  8H&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ; 
  Refresh<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
  2H&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ; 
  Retry<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
  1W&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ; 
  Expire<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
  1D)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ; Minimum 
  TTL<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
  NS&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
  ns.linux.bogus.<BR>1&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
  PTR&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; localhost.<BR><BR><BR><BR></FONT>rc.conf file 
  stuff NOTE THAT I AM USING A DHCP CLIENT THAT LINKS TO A STATIC IP<BR><BR># -- 
  sysinstall generated deltas -- #<BR>network_interfaces="ep0 
  lo0"<BR>ifconfig_ep0="DHCP"<BR># -- sysinstall generated deltas -- 
  #<BR>named_enable="YES"<BR><BR>Other info available at 
  request~&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
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