Re[2]: [ILUG] Red Hat 7.1 woes

From: Paul Jakma (paul at domain clubi.ie)
Date: Mon 01 Oct 2001 - 16:14:08 IST


On Mon, 1 Oct 2001 ccostelloe at domain flogas.ie wrote:

> or not, I have read through plenty, the zone files seem fine.

there are 2 nice tools with bind 9, named-checkzone and
named-checkconf, they use the same parses as named itself.

run the former on everyone of your zone files. if it says anything
but "OK", you have a problem with your zone file, and it might not be
loaded.

also, get bind 9.1.3 (from rawhide, otherwise i have the RPMS
somewhere).

> I cannot resolve these because the damn machine still won't talk
> to me - dig is not getting answers (NXDOMAIN / auth-nxdomain
> errors - I am suspicious that for some reason, it does not
> consider itself authoritative for it's own domain) and the other
> weapon, rndc, is equally humpy (see below). My previous aid,
> nslookup, is deprecated and dumb on Red Hat 7.1 - where it used
> to show the nameserver, it now tells you that you should not be
> using it.

check your rndc setup, does your named.conf have a controls line?

> I did stumble across rndc and thought that this was going to sort
> me out, but no such luck - I wanted to use "rndc dumpdb" to see
> exactly what named was loading and what it was discarding. I
> even read up about it! Both the key names and values in
> rndc.conf and named.conf are the same, both are using MD5, and
> are exactly as per the docs. However, rndc also gets it's
> connection refused.

check the controls line. and the default-server in rndc.conf. eg:

controls {
        inet * port 953 allow { "home-net"; localhost; } keys { ndckey; };
};

> By the way, I meant to post previously that both hosts.allow and
> hosts.deny have no uncommented lines, as usual.
>
> I am not worried about sorting out bind itself once I can get the
> box to talk to me :-)

regards,

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