From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 9 08:53:20 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id IAA21980 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 9 Feb 1996 08:53:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from tribeca.ios.com (root@tribeca.ios.com [198.4.75.48]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA21941 for ; Fri, 9 Feb 1996 08:52:47 -0800 (PST) Received: (from ipc1@localhost) by tribeca.ios.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id LAA13859; Fri, 9 Feb 1996 11:45:14 -0500 Date: Fri, 9 Feb 1996 11:45:13 -0500 (EST) From: Dale Benzer To: wes@intele.net cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DNS and Bind on FreeBSD. In-Reply-To: <199602090559.VAA01381@obie.softweyr.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Dear Wes Still no luck with DNS & Netcom. They are sooooo very helpful... Sometimes I feel like I'm up a bitstream without a paddle....Of all the stuff I've done so far this is the toughest. I am enclosing a copy of the followinf files in the hope that your tained eye will spot the error(s): /etc/named.boot /etc/named.root /etc resolv.conf plus the two files we created -- /etc/namedb/fifth-avenue.com /etc/namedb/fifth-avenue.com.rev Also including herein -- /etc/hosts /etc/resolv.conf And finally, the line in inetd that runs named In answer to your suggestion using nslookup -- the TCP route is fine , i.e., we can ping out anywhere, but nslookuo returns with an error 0 (no error) message. Here's my particular QUESTION OF THE DAY Since we are using Netcom as primary and secondary DNS, where in the above files to we put THEIR IP address and where do we put OUR LOCAL addresses? I think we are confused by reading O'Reilly who assumes we are acting as our own DNS. I mean I just don't understand how we can be a DNS -- wouldn't we have to keep all the IP address for the net on our machine? Or do we still go out and connect to a nameserver somewhere? But that's the QUESTION FOR THE MORROW We WILL be acting as our own DNS at some point...but for now, if you can look at the files and help us place the right info in the right places... I just think that our local host IP address needs to be in there somewhere and I've tried all the permutations I can think of. FOLLOWING THE FILES: *************** 1.) /etc/named.boot *************** ; $Id: named.boot,v 1.3 1995/03/23 08:43:02 rgrimes Exp $ ; From: @(#)named.boot 5.1 (Berkeley) 6/30/90 directory /etc/namedb ; type domain source host/file backup file ;tims primary fifth-avenue.com db.fifth-avenue ;tims primary 205.163.206.in-addr.arpa db.206.215.163 localhost.rev ;tims primary 0.0.127.in-addr.arpa db.127.0.0 ;tims cache . db.cache ; example secondary server config: ; secondary Berkeley.EDU 128.32.130.11 128.32.133.1 ucbhosts.bak ; secondary 32.128.IN-ADDR.ARPA 128.32.130.11 128.32.133.1 ucbhosts.rev.bak ; example primary server config: ; primary Berkeley.EDU ucbhosts ; primary 32.128.IN-ADDR.ARPA ucbhosts.rev primary fifth-avenue.com fifth-avenue.com primary 163.215.206.in-addr.arpa fifth-avenue.com.rev **************** 2.) /etc/namedb/named.root ***************** ; . 3600000 IN NS A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. 3600000 A 198.41.0.4 ; ; formerly NS1.ISI.EDU ; . 3600000 NS B.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. B.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. 3600000 A 128.9.0.107 ; ; formerly C.PSI.NET ; . 3600000 NS C.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. C.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. 3600000 A 192.33.4.12 ; ; formerly TERP.UMD.EDU ; . 3600000 NS D.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. D.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. 3600000 A 128.8.10.90 ; ; formerly NS.NASA.GOV ; . 3600000 NS E.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. E.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. 3600000 A 192.203.230.10 ; ; formerly NS.ISC.ORG ; . 3600000 NS F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. 3600000 A 39.13.229.241 ; ; formerly NS.NIC.DDN.MIL ; . 3600000 NS G.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. G.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. 3600000 A 192.112.36.4 ; ; formerly AOS.ARL.ARMY.MIL ; . 3600000 NS H.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. H.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. 3600000 A 128.63.2.53 ; ; formerly NIC.NORDU.NET ; . 3600000 NS I.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. I.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. 3600000 A 192.36.148.17 ; End of File **************** 3.) /etc/fifth-avenue.com ******************** @ IN SOA ns1.noc.netcom.net. hostmaster.netcom.com. ( 96020800 ;serial 70000 ;refresh 4000 ;retry 400000 ;expire 100000 ;minimum ) IN NS ns1.noc.netcom.net. IN NS ns2.noc.netcom.net. $ORIGIN fifth-avenue.com. IN A 206.215.163.2 IN MX 10 fifth-avenue.com. www IN CNAME fifth-avenue.com. ******************* 4.) /etc/fifth-avenue.com.rev ********************* @ IN SOA ns1.noc.netcom.net. hostmaster.noc.netcom.net. ( 96020800 ;serial number 21600 ;refresh 7200 ;retry 400000 ;expire 100000 ;minimum ) IN NS ns1.noc.netcom.net. IN NS ns2.noc.netcom.net. $ORIGIN 163.215.206.in-addr.arpa. 2 IN PTR fifth-avenue.com. 3 IN PTR nysource.com. ******************** 5.) /etc/resolv.conf ********************** .\" --Copyright-- .\" .\" @(#)resolv.conf 6.2 (Berkeley) 2/29/88 .\" .ne 6v .\" .bp .sh 3 "Remote Server / DNS Client" .sh 4 "/etc/resolv.conf" .(b L domain fifth-avenue.com nameserver 199.183.9.1 nameserver 204.31.1.3 nameserver 192.100.81.101 .)b *****************************6.) /etc/hosts ******************************* # $Id: hosts,v 1.5 1995/04/09 09:54:39 rgrimes Exp $ # # Host Database # This file should contain the addresses and aliases # for local hosts that share this file. # In the presence of the domain name service or NIS, this file may # not be consulted at all; see /etc/host.conf for the resolution order. # # 127.0.0.1 localhost fifth-avenue.com # # Imaginary network. 206.215.163.2 Plato.fifth-avenue.com Plato 206.215.163.3 Aristotle.nysource.com Aristotle 206.215.163.1 marx.fifth-avenue.com Marx #10.0.0.3 myfriend.my.domain myfriend # ************** 7.) FInally .. the line from /etc/inetd ******************** named stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/named named ****************** END OF FILES SECTION ****************** I can't tell you how much I appreciate you looking at these files...I know there is a stupid error somewhere... Thanks so much Dale and Tim