Date: Thu, 18 Sep 1997 16:58:32 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: "Jamil J. Weatherbee" <jamil@counterintelligence.ml.org> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NAMESERVER Setup Problems Message-ID: <19970918165832.04837@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970917013116.581A-100000@counterintelligence.ml.org>; from Jamil J. Weatherbee on Wed, Sep 17, 1997 at 01:35:13AM -0700 References: <19970917173026.50445@lemis.com> <Pine.BSF.3.96.970917013116.581A-100000@counterintelligence.ml.org>
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On Wed, Sep 17, 1997 at 01:35:13AM -0700, Jamil J. Weatherbee wrote: > > acroal.com (forward) zone file: > > (my mail server is also 209.76.130.130 in this case I had to name the > machine acroal.com. because I couldn't figure out how else to get > mail delivered to it even though i have hostname set to > shellx.acroal.com, kind of a hack, maybye there's a better way) Definitely. You set this in /etc/sendmail.cf on shellx: # who I masquerade as (null for no masquerading) (see also $=M) DMacroal.com In fact, I discourage having an A record the same as the domain name. It can confuse things. > If there is anything totally wacky about the secondary nameserver .141 it > might be because I have a major filter on the router -- the only traffic I > want through to there was name service) It probably just doesn't > OK, let's take this apart: > > @ IN SOA acroal.com. root.acroal.com. > ( 1997091200 ; serial > 10800 ; refresh > 900 ; retry > 604800 ; expire > 43200 ) ; minimum > >>> Your times are probably too short. Try 86400 seconds for the >>> refresh, and at least the same for the minimum ttl. > > NS acroal.com. > >>> You're missing an NS record for acro. In addition, you're missing >>> NS records for the assigned servers. Compare: >>> >>> Oh. You updated the records yesterday. That's what comes from me >>> starting this message and then postponing it a day. OK, now whois >>> looks alright. > > router0 A 209.76.130.129 > acroal.com. A 209.76.130.130 > MX 1 acroal.com. > >>> You really should have a second MX, either locally or offsite. > > fax CNAME acroal.com. > acro A 209.76.130.141 > ns2 CNAME acro > >>> still a CNAME in there > > al A 209.76.130.142 The rest looks OK. So does the reverse zone file, modulo the comments above. As somebody else pointed out, the next thing we need to see is your named.boot and the flags with which you start it. Also the output of named when you start up. Greg
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