In message <aanlkti=lu1mqttbq=1nnpurab5zf7pdryygy1mxb9...@mail.gmail.com>, Tim Dunphy writes: > Hello BIND9! > > I've got a bad situation after accidentally selecting the wrong option > in sysinstall. The DNS server that I've been using for quite a while > is quite broken. > > Normally I could type in the host name of any machine I had configured > in DNS and it would return the correct network request (in terms of > ssh, ping, host, dig). > > Now this is what get: > > Code: > > [r...@lbsd2:/etc/namedb]#host bsd2 > Host bsd2 not found: 3(NXDOMAIN) > [r...@lbsd2:/etc/namedb]#ping bsd2 > ping: cannot resolve bsd2: Unknown host > [r...@lbsd2:/etc/namedb]#ssh bsd2 > ssh: Could not resolve hostname bsd2: hostname nor servname provided, > or not known > > These requests are taking place on the machine that I have setup as > the DNS server. > > My resolv.conf is setup to use my LBSD2 DNS server: > > Code: > > [r...@lbsd2:/etc/namedb]#cat /etc/resolv.conf > domain summitnjhome.com > nameserver 192.168.1.44 > #nameserver 4.2.2.2 > > And even tho I don't seem to have an external DNS server setup at the > moment on this box, network services to external sources seem to work: > > Code: > > [r...@lbsd2:/etc/namedb]#ping yahoo.com > PING yahoo.com (98.137.149.56): 56 data bytes > 64 bytes from 98.137.149.56: icmp_seq=0 ttl=56 time=101.503 ms > 64 bytes from 98.137.149.56: icmp_seq=1 ttl=56 time=97.850 ms > > [r...@lbsd2:/etc/namedb]#host yahoo.com > yahoo.com has address 72.30.2.43 > yahoo.com has address 98.137.149.56 > yahoo.com has address 209.191.122.70 > yahoo.com has address 67.195.160.76 > yahoo.com has address 69.147.125.65 > yahoo.com mail is handled by 1 g.mx.mail.yahoo.com. > yahoo.com mail is handled by 1 h.mx.mail.yahoo.com. > yahoo.com mail is handled by 1 i.mx.mail.yahoo.com. > yahoo.com mail is handled by 1 j.mx.mail.yahoo.com. > yahoo.com mail is handled by 1 k.mx.mail.yahoo.com. > yahoo.com mail is handled by 1 a.mx.mail.yahoo.com. > yahoo.com mail is handled by 1 b.mx.mail.yahoo.com. > yahoo.com mail is handled by 1 c.mx.mail.yahoo.com. > yahoo.com mail is handled by 1 d.mx.mail.yahoo.com. > yahoo.com mail is handled by 1 e.mx.mail.yahoo.com. > yahoo.com mail is handled by 1 f.mx.mail.yahoo.com. > > [r...@lbsd2:/etc/namedb]#host summitnjhome.com > summitnjhome.com has address 123.45.67.89 > summitnjhome.com mail is handled by 0 smtp.secureserver.net. > summitnjhome.com mail is handled by 10 mailstore1.secureserver.net. > > [r...@lbsd2:/etc/namedb]#host bsd2.summitnjhome.com > Host bsd2.summitnjhome.com not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)
What does "dig bsd2.summitnjhome.com" report? > It looks like I may be using verizon's DNS server tho I am at a loss > to know where this is set: > > Code: > > [r...@lbsd2:/etc/namedb]#dig bsd2 bsd2 Dig does not perform searches by default also you probably ment "dig bsd2 @bsd2" "dig <domain> @<server>". > DNS _does_ restart correctly: > > Code: > > [r...@lbsd2:/etc/namedb]#/etc/rc.d/named restart > Stopping named. > Waiting for PIDS: 4015. > Starting named. > > But notice what happens in the messages log when I do that: > > Code: > > Sep 17 00:03:24 LBSD2 named[4170]: starting BIND 9.6.1-P1 -t /var/named -u bi > nd > Sep 17 00:03:24 LBSD2 named[4170]: built with '--prefix=/usr' > '--infodir=/usr/share/info' '--mandir=/usr/share/man' > '--enable-threads' '--disable-ipv6' '--enable-getifaddrs' > '--disable-linux-caps' '--with-openssl=/usr' > '--with-randomdev=/dev/random' '--without-idn' '--without-libxml2' > Sep 17 00:03:24 LBSD2 named[4170]: command channel listening on 127.0.0.1#953 > Sep 17 00:03:24 LBSD2 named[4170]: command channel listening on ::1#953 > Sep 17 00:03:24 LBSD2 named[4170]: the working directory is not writable > Sep 17 00:03:24 LBSD2 named[4170]: running > > > So it is complaining about the working directory not being writable. > In my /etc/namedb/named.conf these are the relevant directories: > > Code: > > options { > // Relative to the chroot directory, if any > directory "/etc/namedb"; > pid-file "/var/run/named/pid"; > dump-file "/var/dump/named_dump.db"; > statistics-file "/var/stats/named.stats"; > > And these are the permissions on each: > > Code: > > [r...@lbsd2:/etc/namedb]#ls -l /etc | grep namedb > lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 21 Sep 17 00:03 namedb -> > /var/named/etc/namedb > > Code: > > [r...@lbsd2:/etc/namedb]#ls -l /var | grep named > drwxr-xr-x 6 root wheel 512 Sep 16 23:13 named > > I've tried to change the permissions on each to bind.wheel. For some > reason this works on /var/named but NOT on /etc/namedb Because that is where the symbolic link points. > Code: > > [r...@lbsd2:/etc/namedb]#chown -R bind:wheel /etc/namedb/ > [r...@lbsd2:/etc/namedb]#chown -R bind:wheel /var/named > [r...@lbsd2:/etc/namedb]#ls -l /etc | grep namedb > lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 21 Sep 17 00:03 namedb -> > /var/named/etc/namedb > [r...@lbsd2:/etc/namedb]#ls -l /var | grep named > drwxr-xr-x 6 bind wheel 512 Sep 16 23:13 named > > Here are some more permissions that may be factoring into this situation: > > Code: > > [r...@lbsd2:/etc/namedb]#ls -l > total 48 > drwxr-xr-x 2 bind wheel 512 Nov 21 2009 dynamic > drwxr-xr-x 2 bind wheel 512 Sep 16 18:38 master > -rw-r--r-- 1 bind wheel 12088 Sep 16 17:44 named.conf > -rw-r--r-- 1 bind wheel 2969 Nov 21 2009 named.root > -rw------- 1 bind wheel 97 Aug 21 18:50 rndc.key > drwxr-xr-x 2 bind wheel 512 Nov 21 2009 slave > [r...@lbsd2:/etc/namedb]#cd master/ > [r...@lbsd2:/etc/namedb/master]#ls -l > total 20 > -rw-r--r-- 1 bind wheel 243 Nov 21 2009 empty.db > -rw-r--r-- 1 bind wheel 265 Nov 21 2009 localhost-forward.db > -rw-r--r-- 1 bind wheel 333 Nov 21 2009 localhost-reverse.db > -rw-r--r-- 1 bind wheel 3027 Sep 16 18:37 summitnjhome.com And the content of summitnjhome.com are? Also the named.conf zone definition for summitnjhome.com is? > And lastly it does not appear to be a misconfiguration of the zone > file, because as SOON as I encountered this problem I rm'd the one in > /etc/namedb and copied a known working backup to the same location. > > Clearly this situation needs a new set of eyes. I would _greatly_ > appreciate your input here. Thank you BIND9!! > _______________________________________________ > bind-users mailing list > bind-users@lists.isc.org > https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users -- Mark Andrews, ISC 1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742 INTERNET: ma...@isc.org _______________________________________________ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users