Michael Harnois wrote:
> I have bind set up as a caching-only nameserver on the machine that
> serves as my internet gateway, and it works just peachy. However, my
> workstation can't see it: i.e. when I run nslookup, I get
> *** Can't find server name for address 192.168.0.3: Non-existent
> host/domain
>
> and it rolls over to the second listing in resolv.conf, my ISP's
> nameserver. Since everything else on my localnet works fine, what's
> wrong here?
nslookup depends on the creation of ``A'' records in files kept
in /var/named/ directory. The Debian install and setup does not
create these for you. You have to do a little work on your own
and create a full fledge name server for your network.
First run run bind config to set up the various files that you need
under Debian. When it comes to the point of asking whether you want
a caching only server answer no. Bindconfig will prompt you for the
forwarders and such. These are the actual nameserver addresses of
your isp nameserver 1 and 2.
After you have the that done hand edit the /var/named/boot.options
file to reflect your local nameserver
example:
;
; Options for name server
; Use `bindconfig' to automatically configure this file
;
forwarders 198.69.186.1 198.69.186.2
; type domain source file
primary localhost named.local
primary 127.in-addr.arpa named.rev-local
;; Custom configurations below (will be preserved)
primary jesus-is.org named.hosts
primary 1.168.192.in-addr.arpa
named.rev-hostspatches-place:/var/named/
next edit the /var/named.hosts file to reflect your system host names
example:
;
; /var/named/named.hosts
;
; BIND our hosts
;
@ IN SOA patches-place.jesus-is.org.
leroy.patches-place.jesus-is.org. (
1 ; Serial
86400 ; Refresh 24 hours
900 ; Retry 15 minutes
2592000 ; Expire 30 days
1209600 ) ; Default TTL 14 days
;
IN NS patches-place.jesus-is.org.
IN MX 5 patches-place.jesus-is.org
;
; patches-place:
;
patches-place IN A 192.168.1.1
IN HINFO PC-586 Linux
ns IN A 192.168.1.1
nameserver IN CNAME patches-place.jesus-is.org.
;
;
;
; other hosts
;
;
peepers IN A 192.168.1.2
IN HINFO PC-386SX Linux
monet IN A 192.168.1.3
IN HINFO PC-Pentium Linux
Next edit /var/named/named.rev-hosts
example:
;
; /var/named/named.rev-hosts
;
;named.rev-hosts
;
@ IN SOA patches-place.jesus-is.org.
lcressy.patches-place.jesus-is.org. (
1 ; Serial
86400 ; Refresh 24 hours
900 ; Retry 15 minutes
2592000 ; Expire 30 days
1209600 ) ; Default TTL 14 days
;
IN NS patches-place.jesus-is.org.
;
; reverse map your IP addresses
;
0 IN PTR jesus-is.org
1 IN PTR patches-place.jesus-is.org.
2 IN PTR peepers.jesus-is.org.
3 IN PTR monet.jesus-is.org
Next edit your /etc/resolv.conf to point to your name server
example:
nameserver 127.0.0.1
search jesus-is.org
nameserver 192.168.1.1
finally, edit your /etc/host.conf
example:
order hosts,bind
multi on
nospoof on
alert on
trim jesus-is.org
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Well anyway, I hope that this helps your church. PTL
BTW, I usually don't read the user list, so if you have
any questions mail me directly
Thanks
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