Cannot create A record issue

2013-02-20 Thread Jsilliman
I can't seem to create an extra A record that works. I've created A records for ns1 and mail and they work if I do a bind lookup, but nothing else works. I did a lot of research before reaching out here. This is my zone file. Remote.example.com never works...This is Bind9 running on Ubuntu

Re: Cannot create A record issue

2013-02-20 Thread Warren Kumari
Are you sure BIND is loading the zone file? Are you remembering to update the SOA / serial? Are you restarting BIND after making changes? If you make a change (and update the SOA), if you do: dig soa example.com do you see the new serial #? W On Feb 20, 2013, at 12:40 PM, Jsilliman

Re: Cannot create A record issue

2013-02-20 Thread John Miller
Just to cover all the bases, you're doing your lookup directly against your server, correct? Easy to accidentally query a different nameserver and not see what you're expecting. Otherwise I'd second Warren's suggestion to double-check your serial number. John On 02/20/2013 12:40 PM,

Re: Cannot create A record issue

2013-02-20 Thread Jsilliman
The serial number gets updated in the logs, but not when I do a dig. (21 vs 3-old) example.com. 603817 IN SOA ns1.example.com. root.localhost. 3 604800 86400 2419200 604800 Feb 20 10:26:08 server1 named[15739]: reloading configuration succeeded Feb 20 10:26:08 server1

Re: Cannot create A record issue

2013-02-20 Thread Alan Clegg
On Feb 20, 2013, at 1:30 PM, Jsilliman jsilli...@gmail.com wrote: The serial number gets updated in the logs, but not when I do a dig. Do you have more than one copy of BIND running? AlanC -- Alan Clegg | +1-919-355-8851 | a...@clegg.com ___

Re: Cannot create A record issue

2013-02-20 Thread Jsilliman
No, I think it's only loaded once, but port 53 is listening on localhost tun0 interface for Openvpn 69.62.x.x 15739 ?Ssl0:04 /usr/sbin/named -u bind On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 10:31 AM, Alan Clegg a...@clegg.com wrote: On Feb 20, 2013, at 1:30 PM, Jsilliman jsilli...@gmail.com

Re: Cannot create A record issue

2013-02-20 Thread WBrown
Jsilliman wrote on 02/20/2013 01:44:20 PM: No, I think it's only loaded once, but port 53 is listening on Try ps aux |grep named to prove it. Confidentiality Notice: This electronic message and any attachments may contain confidential or privileged information, and is intended only for the

Re: Cannot create A record issue

2013-02-20 Thread Tony Finch
Jsilliman jsilli...@gmail.com wrote: The serial number gets updated in the logs, but not when I do a dig. (21 vs 3-old) Did you dig @localhost or is dig querying some recursive server elsewhere? What does /etc/resolv.conf contain? Tony. -- f.anthony.n.finch d...@dotat.at http://dotat.at/

Re: Cannot create A record issue

2013-02-20 Thread Alan Clegg
And as was stated before, cat /etc/resolv.conf and let's see where your dig is actually going... -- Alan Clegg | +1-919-355-8851 | a...@clegg.com ___ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this list

Re: Cannot create A record issue

2013-02-20 Thread Jsilliman
Ubuntu does not use that: root@:/etc/bind# cat /etc/resolv.conf # Dynamic resolv.conf(5) file for glibc resolver(3) generated by resolvconf(8) # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE BY HAND -- YOUR CHANGES WILL BE OVERWRITTEN On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 10:56 AM, Alan Clegg a...@clegg.com wrote: And

Re: Cannot create A record issue

2013-02-20 Thread Alan Clegg
On Feb 20, 2013, at 1:57 PM, Jsilliman jsilli...@gmail.com wrote: Ubuntu does not use that: root@:/etc/bind# cat /etc/resolv.conf # Dynamic resolv.conf(5) file for glibc resolver(3) generated by resolvconf(8) # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE BY HAND -- YOUR CHANGES WILL BE OVERWRITTEN

Re: Cannot create A record issue

2013-02-20 Thread Mike Hoskins (michoski)
-Original Message- From: Jsilliman jsilli...@gmail.com Date: Wednesday, February 20, 2013 1:57 PM To: Alan Clegg a...@clegg.com Cc: bind-users@lists.isc.org bind-users@lists.isc.org Subject: Re: Cannot create A record issue Ubuntu does not use that: root@:/etc/bind# cat /etc

Re: Cannot create A record issue

2013-02-20 Thread Jsilliman
Check this out: dig @localhost 69.62.x.x 10800 IN SOA a.root-servers.net. nstld.verisign-grs.com. Shouldn't this be going to my local server for SOA ? The issue is that when I create a new A record, such as, remote.example.com, I cannot do a dig on that record, only mx and ns

Re: Cannot create A record issue

2013-02-20 Thread Alan Clegg
On Feb 20, 2013, at 2:06 PM, Jsilliman jsilli...@gmail.com wrote: Check this out: dig @localhost 69.62.x.x 10800 IN SOA a.root-servers.net. nstld.verisign-grs.com. Shouldn't this be going to my local server for SOA ? The issue is that when I create a new A record, such

Re: Cannot create A record issue

2013-02-20 Thread Jsilliman
I just changed the domain name in output. If I do a dig on dig example.com ** Returns nothing. I have to actually dig on ns1.example.com, www..., or mail... I am trying to add an A record (remote.example.com), and have it work... root@server1:/etc/bind# dig remote.example.com ; DiG

Re: Cannot create A record issue

2013-02-20 Thread Warren Kumari
On Feb 20, 2013, at 2:17 PM, Jsilliman jsilli...@gmail.com wrote: I just changed the domain name in output. If I do a dig on dig example.com ** Returns nothing. I have to actually dig on ns1.example.com, www..., or mail... I am trying to add an A record (remote.example.com), and

Re: Cannot create A record issue

2013-02-20 Thread Jsilliman
Thanks, I found the issue. I had a typo in named.conf for the zone file name. Doh On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 11:29 AM, Warren Kumari war...@kumari.net wrote: On Feb 20, 2013, at 2:17 PM, Jsilliman jsilli...@gmail.com wrote: I just changed the domain name in output. If I do a dig on dig