I'm trying to learn how to use DNS in my home network here. I've read over several tutorials on DNS and I understand the basic theory, but I'm having problems with actually setting up the server. All the tutorials I looked at worked directly with text files and it confused me, so I decided to try using redhat-config-bind (I use Fedora Core 1). I leased another domain name (espersonline.com) and listed ns1.espersonline.com as the nameserver for the domain name. I asked the registrar I leased espersonline.com from to register ns1.espersonline.com with the root namespace and gave it my external IP (68.15.193.18) as the IP address of the nameserver. They've gotten my nameserver registered, but I'm having trouble setting it up. Many of the DNS tutorials I looked at recommended using 'dig' to test the nameserver configuration. Below is the output for espersonline.com [michael@baby michael]$ dig espersonline.com ; <<>> DiG 9.2.2-P3 <<>> espersonline.com ;; global options: printcmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 47894 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 0 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;espersonline.com. IN A ;; ANSWER SECTION: espersonline.com. 1376 IN A 63.96.137.4 ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: espersonline.com. 1376 IN NS ns2.e-names.org. espersonline.com. 1376 IN NS ns1.e-names.org. ;; Query time: 25 msec ;; SERVER: 68.12.16.30#53(68.12.16.30) ;; WHEN: Fri Sep 17 18:40:21 2004 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 97 I interpret "status: NOERROR" to mean that dig found espersonline right. I tried to set up one computer on my network, which is named bullet. This is what the main window in redhat-config-bind says under ns1.espersonline.com: bullet --> 192.168.1.2 bullet aliased to bullet.ns1.espersonline.com bullet served by bullet bullet is the computer that the DNS server is installed on. When I try to dig bullet.espersonline.com I get this: [michael@baby michael]$ dig bullet.espersonline.com ; <<>> DiG 9.2.2-P3 <<>> bullet.espersonline.com ;; global options: printcmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 53603 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;bullet.espersonline.com. IN A ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: espersonline.com. 873 IN SOA ns2.enameco.com. dns-admin.enameco.com. 1 3600 600 86400 3600 ;; Query time: 27 msec ;; SERVER: 68.12.16.30#53(68.12.16.30) ;; WHEN: Fri Sep 17 18:48:27 2004 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 99 Status is always either NXDOMAIN or SERVFAIL. What am I doing wrong and how do I fix it? Please help!
