[TriLUG] DNS ( BIND 9 )

[Kevin P. Knox]

Strange seeing this at the moment. :-)  I set up BIND 9.2.3 on a OBSD 3.5 box 
just last week.

Check the man page for named(8) because I "think" the default behavior of BIND 
that ships with OBSD currently is to chroot into /var/named.

It threw me for awhile until I checked the man page.

Just curious though....did the nameserver complain when started?  ...via 
syslog....?  Were there any error messages, and if so what were they?

... Kev

On Sunday 27 June 2004 06:35 pm, Brian McCullough wrote:
> OK, I give up.
>
> As I mentioned a while ago, I used to be quite familiar with BIND 4 and
> was able to set up DNS servers that worked.  I also have managed to get
> BIND 8 to work sometimes, but don't seem to be able to get my latest
> machine to cooperate.
>
> I am running OpenBSD 3.5 on this machine, and intend to provide a local
> DNS server for my internal network, passing through all other domains to
> the outside.  I have been reading various postings, and trying the
> suggestions given, as you will see in the following files.  I suspect
> that all of my problems are within the named.conf file, since I don't
> think that zone files have changed drastically.  Because of that, I will
> start by just posting /var/named/etc/named.conf ( that is the "official"
> one, right, since I don't seem to find one in /etc. ) .
>
> BTW, is there a difference in using the IP address of the local machine or
> should I always use 127.0.0.1 in the /etc/resolv.conf file? ( If that makes
> sense. )
>
>
> OK, here is /var/named/etc/named.conf:
>
> ======================================================================
> // $OpenBSD: named-dual.conf,v 1.5 2003/09/22 20:44:32 jakob Exp $
> //
> // Example file for a named configuration with dual views,
> // one processing recursive queries only and one processing
> // authoritative-only queries.
>
>
> // Update this list to include only the networks for which you want
> // to execute recursive queries. The default setting allows all hosts
> // on any IPv4 networks for which the system has an interface, and
> // the IPv6 localhost address.
> //
> acl clients {
>         localnets;
>
> 	::1;
>
> };
>
> options {
> 	version "";     // remove this to allow version queries
>
> 	listen-on    { any; };
> 	listen-on-v6 { any; };
>
>         forwarders   {
> 		64.244.27.141 ;
> 		192.101.21.1;
> 		128.109.131.3;
> 		207.217.126.11;
> 		207.217.121.214 ;
> 		207.217.126.41 ;
> 		207.217.77.42 ;
> 	} ;
> };
>
> logging {
> 	category lame-servers { null; };
> };
>
> view "recursive" {
> 	match-clients { clients; };
> 	match-recursive-only yes;
>
> 	// Standard
> 	// zones
> 	//
> 	zone "." {
> 		type hint;
>                 file "standard/root.hint";
>         };
>
>         zone "localhost" {
>                 type master;
>                 file "standard/localhost";
>                 allow-transfer { localhost; };
>         };
>
>         zone "127.in-addr.arpa" {
>                 type master;
>                 file "standard/loopback";
>                 allow-transfer { localhost; };
>         };
>
>         zone
> "0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.ip6.arpa" {
>                 type master;
>                 file "standard/loopback6.arpa";
>                 allow-transfer { localhost; };
>         };
>
>         zone
> "0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.ip6.int" {
>                 type master;
>                 file "standard/loopback6.int";
>                 allow-transfer { localhost; };
>         };
>
>         zone "com" {
>                 type delegation-only;
>         };
>
>         zone "net" {
>                 type delegation-only;
>         };
> };
>
> view "authoritative" {
>         recursion no;
>         additional-from-auth no;
>         additional-from-cache no;
>
>         // Master zones
>         //
>         zone "bdmcc-us.com" {
>                 type master;
>                 file "master/bdmcc-us.com";
>         };
>
>         zone "1.168.192.in-addr.arpa" {
>                 type master;
>                 file "master/192.168.1";
>         };
>
>         // Slave zones
>         //
>         //zone "otherzone.net" {
>         //      type slave;
>         //      file "slave/otherzone.net";
>         //      masters { 192.168.1.10; [...;] };
>         //};
> };
>
>
> ======================== End of File ===============================
>
>
> So, what obvious mistake have I made?
>
>
> Thanks,
> Brian