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Date:      Tue, 29 Jun 1999 11:41:14 -0500
From:      Kevin Weiss <kevin.weiss@mail.utexas.edu>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   FreeBSD primary name server reports address at "0.0.0.0" 
Message-ID:  <19990629163956.3E51D15458@hub.freebsd.org>

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Hello FreeBSd Community.  Fair warning that this is long, an I thank anyone in advance
for helping me with this.

I have 2 machines.  One is a Win98 machine, and the other is a FBSD 3.1 machine.
I am trying to setup DNS/BIND services on the FBSD.  

For now, my reference is the O'Reilly book "DNS and BIND".  I am setting up
my FBSD machine to be my gateway to the world (hence gateway.example.com).
I am using example.com here, but I have already registered my real domain (it has yet 
to be hosted).  My IP however, is MADE UP until I get a real one next month from
my ADSL ISP.

Here are my corresponding db files in my /etc/namedb directory.
===================================================
For db.example:

@ IN SOA gateway.example.com kweiss.freebsd.example.com. (
		   1		;Serial
	       	   10800	;Refresh every 3 hours
		   3600	        ;Retry after 1 hour
		   604800	;Expire after 1 week
		   86400 )      ;Minimum TTL of 1 day
;
; Name servers
;
		 IN NS		;gateway.example.com 
		 IN NS		;freebsd.example.com 
;
; Addresses for all the Hosts
;
localhost			IN A  127.0.0.1
gateway			IN A  149.7.13.1
windows			IN A  149.7.13.2
freebsd			IN A  149.7.13.3
;
; Aliases
;
www			IN CNAME freebsd
ftp			IN CNAME freebsd
;
; Mail Records
;
		IN MX 13 gateway.example.com.
		IN MX 50 www.jump.net.

===================================================
For db.127.0.0:

0.0.127.in-addr.arpa. IN SOA gateway.example.com kweiss.freebsd.example.com. (
				1	;Serial
				10800	;Refresh every 3 hours
				3600	;Retry after 1 hour
				604800	;Expire after 1 week
				86400 ) ;Minimum TTL of 1 day
;
; Name servers
;
0.0.127.in-addr.arpa. IN NS gateway.example.com.
0.0.127.in-addr.arpa. IN NS freebsd.example.com.
;
; Address for canonical names
;
1.0.0.127.in-addr.arpa.  IN PTR localhost.
===================================================
For 149.7.13:

13.7.149.in-addr.arpa. IN SOA gateway.example.com kweiss.freebsd.example.com. (
				1	;Serial
				10800	;Refresh every 3 hours
				3600	;Retry after 1 hour
				604800	;Expire after 1 week
				86400 ) ;Minimum TTL of 1 day
;
; Name servers
;
13.7.149.in-addr.arpa. IN NS gateway.example.com.
13.7.149.in-addr.arpa. IN NS freebsd.example.com.
;
; Address for canonical names
;
1.13.7.149.in-addr.arpa.  IN PTR gateway.example.com.
2.13.7.149.in-addr.arpa.  IN PTR windows.example.com.
3.13.7.149.in-addr.arpa.  IN PTR freebsd.example.com.
===================================================

Wheeew...ok...now, after rebooting the machine, I log in and type:

	nslookup gateway.example.com

and I get...

	Server: gateway.example.com
	Address: 0.0.0.0

and of course the long wait returns...

	***request to gateway.example.com timed-out

I have also NOT edited my named.conf for my primary server bacause
I wasn't sure where exactly to put the info.  Does it make a difference
where I put I zone "primary" information?

Again, any help appreciated.

Kevin Weiss
kevin.weiss@mail.utexas.edu



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