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| | I've tried unsuccessfully to set up a DNS server using the GUI (or any other | method). I add a domain, a host record, save and restart named and when I | try to resolve the name it says it can't find it. | | Can someone point me in the right direction? | | Frank
As another poster said, check your /etc/resolv.conf entries. Another way to go about it is to specify the name server you want to query against:
host test.mytestdomain.snu ns1.mydomain.snu
The second hostname is the nameserver to use. It can be 127.0.0.1 (or "localhost") for the local nameserver. I often set up the nameserver remotely, so at my desktop, I use this type of command to make sure my query goes where it should.
Now, if it fails to look up a host, try a standard query to see if it can return *anything*:
host -t ns mytestdomain.snu
This should return the nameservers for the domain. If this works, the entry for your host is probably wrong in your zone file.
If this does not work, and, in particular, if the response is something like "No name servers found for ...", check your log file to see if the nameserver loaded correctly. You should have something like:
Feb 6 15:18:41 waveform1 named[4870]: zone mytestdomain.snu/IN: loaded serial 2005012901
in /var/log/messages. If not, you have not configured named to load the zone or there may be syntax errors reported here.
I almost always do a
tail -f /var/log/messages
in another window while setting up new zones so I can watch named load and catch errors quickly.
Have fun,
- -- Eric Vought
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