understood... and thanks for the tip. After I sent my original email, I ran named-checkconf and named-checkzone. checkconf didn't report anything (just returned me to the command prompt). checkzone complained that it couldn't find the mydomain.com file. So of course, I checked paths and such and can't see anything obviously wrong... I'll dig some more tonight.
The process I'm after is to emulate the MS DNS server, which will dynamically update it's parent name servers. My domain registration points to superreal.net's name servers, and with MS DNS on my server, the IP address there was changed dynamically. However, with my Linux router in place now, the MS DNS server is reporting it's internal address to superreal.net. So my goal is to remove the MS DNS and configure Bind to do the same (Bind is running on my router). My research suggests that a basic Bind configuration should do the trick. When I'm at home tonight, I'll post the pertinent files to the list and report any other findings. Shawn -----Original Message----- From: Kevin Anderson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, January 27, 2003 7:57 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: (clug-talk) DNS Config help? Unless you're likely to break something in production, I'd try running it. Bind 9 gives fairly good error messages, so if there's a problem, you'll find it easily. Basically, My guess is that you'll need only A records in the mydomain.com file. What you're describing isn't very complex at all. If you're doing Email as well, then you'll need MX records too. I will say though. Things break in wierd places when you can't do reverse lookups. It's fair to focus on forward first, but once it's running, I'd strongly suggest making reverse a priority. For us, Email was an excellent example. Without reverse lookups working correctly, some sites blocked our email. (Spam Filters tried to verify that x.x.x.x was thisdomain.com, but failed, so they refuse the connection). Kev. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Shawn Grover" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, January 27, 2003 12:21 AM Subject: (clug-talk) DNS Config help? > I'm trying to setup a basic DNS server with Bind 9. I have found a few > tutorials online, and tried to step through them, but either I'm very dense > (which is likely), or I'm missing some basic info these tutorials assume is > known. To make matters worse, I think I need to dynamically modify my > master record (to reflect my dynamic IP). Anyone care to help? > > Here's what I've completed so far: > 1. Edited hosts.conf to change the order to bind,hosts > 2. Added the following record to named.conf: > zone "mydomain.com." { > type master; > file "mydomain.com"; > }; > (I don't think I need a reverse lookup at this point - and will worry > about that later I think....) > 3. I copied the localhost.zone file to mydomain.com. Then edited that file > to reflect my domain name and IP address. (I can email this file to you if > it'll help). However, I'm not completely clear on what should be in this > file. I'd assume a name to IP mapping is in order, by the samples I've > found aren't very clear to a DNS newbie. > > I doubt my configuration would run right, so I haven't yet tried it. I'm > hoping one of the "guru's" here can help out. > > Oh, if it helps, the server is a RH8 box, with a minimal install (no X > windows). I may not have all the required utilities installed either - > dnsconf appears to be missing. But I don't think it's 100% needed either. > > Thanks in advance for any help. > > Shawn > >
