Dear Friends,
On Fri, 17 Aug 2007 Raghu Prasad wrote :
I just want to setup a local Naming server using Bind or whatever.... ie.. In my network i need to ping the Linux box using name / call the local webserver using name instead of IP
- I have installed bind and configured named.conf
- I have copied localhost.zone to forward.com and modified below
lin.com (my domain name) IN NS ns.lin.com
lin.com. IN A 10.36.51.122 ns.lin.com. IN A 10.36.51.122 www.lin.com IN A 10.36.51.122
Look at the very beginning of your localhost.zone file. It contains something like
$TTL 604800 @ IN SOA localhost. root.localhost. ( 1 ; Serial 604800 ; Refresh 86400 ; Retry
<snip>
In your new forward.com file, have you changed the entry for start of authority(SOA) from 'localhost.' to 'lin.com.' and 'root.localhost.' to 'root.lin.com.'? <--- Don't miss the terminating dot in the domain name.
and in my named.conf
zone "lin.com" IN { type master; file "forward.com" };
Seems okay for a working name server.
But when I ping my PC using name (test.lin.com) reply comes from localhost.... WHY???
First of all, test.lin.com is not mentioned in the configuration segment posted by you. Also don't use ping for DNS testing. Use dig, host or nslookup commands. See respective manual or info pages for usage details.
Raghu
sorry to post my link, but I feel it could be of some help...
http://fedoranews.org/mediawiki/index.php/How_to_configure_DNS_Server
regards,
Bimal Pandit