-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Fabiano Petrone enlightened us with the following gems on 16/10/05 11:57: > Hello to Everybody > > I've configured an (only!!) internal experimental DNS (home.net) for my LAN. > the machine (FC3, bind 9.2.5 rel.3) is called fedora3.home.net > (192.168.0.50) I've added a W2000 (zenone.home.net, 192.168.0.20) as an > experimental client pointing to fedora3 as DNS. > > here's my /var/named/chroot/etc/named.conf file: > > > options { > directory "/var/named"; > dump-file "/var/named/data/cache_dump.db"; > statistics-file "/var/named/data/named_stats.txt"; > }; > acl "mylan" { > 127/8; 192.168.0.0/24; > }; > controls { > inet 127.0.0.1 allow { localhost; } keys { rndckey; }; > }; > view "inside" { > match-clients { "mylan"; }; > recursion yes; > zone "." IN { > type hint; > file "named.ca"; > }; > > zone "0.168.192.in-addr.arpa" IN { > type master; > file "homelan.db"; > }; > > zone "home.net" { > type master; > file "db.home.net.inside"; > }; > }; > include "/etc/rndc.key"; > > that's my homelan.db for the reverse lookups: > > $TTL 86400 > @ IN SOA 0.0.168.192.in-addr.arpa. root.fedora3.home.net. ( > 2005101501 ; Serial > 28800 ; Refresh > 14400 ; Retry > 3600000 ; Expire > 86400 ) ; Minimum > > IN NS 0.0.168.192.in-addr.arpa. > 1 IN PTR fedora3.home.net. > 2 IN PTR zenone.home.net. > > ;EOF > > and that's is my db.home.net.inside > > $TTL 86400 > @ IN SOA home.net. root.fedora3.home.net. ( > 2005101501 ; Serial > 28800 ; Refresh > 14400 ; Retry > 3600000 ; Expire > 86400 ) ; Minimum > > ; Name Servers > IN NS fedora3.home.net. > > ; Mail Server for Domain > IN MX 10 fedora3.home.net. > > ; Public Servers > fedora3 IN A 192.168.0.50 > > ; Private Clients on the LAN > zenone IN A 192.168.0.20 > > ;EOF > > the problems are the following: > > (1) > the command > host fedora3 (or host zenone) > fails with the following message: > > Host fedora3 not found: 2(SERVFAIL) > > > host fedora3.home.net (or host zeone.home.net) > > works OK instead. > > (2) > > the command > > nslookup zenone.home.net > works OK > > the command > > nslookup 192.168.0.20 > > fails with the following error message: > > Server: 192.168.0.50 > Address: 192.168.0.50#53 > > ** server can't find 20.0.168.192.in-addr.arpa: NXDOMAIN > > > thanks a lot in advance for your reply > > bye > > Fabiano > methinks the error lies here: IN NS 0.0.168.192.in-addr.arpa. which should be IN NS my.name.server. ie, not the entire reverse lookup zone. the same applies to your SOA record, usually. the hostname part should be a fully-qualified hostname, not an IP address try changing the NS record in your reverse lookup zone to @ IN NS fedora3.home.net. see if that works Regards, Stuart - -- Stuart Sears RHCE RHCX DPRINTK("doing direct send\n"); /* @@@ well, this doesn't work anyway */ linux-2.6.6/drivers/atm/eni.c -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFDUkRpamPtx1brPQ4RAl7bAJ9uvVmgn39P0cZpft+UmpKp9e3PLQCfQYux NAsK0QeMEg5RyRU7td25fhg= =aWxs -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----