Need DNS help

[Michael Sullivan]

Here's the espersonline.zone file:

[root at bullet named]# cat espersonline.com.zone
$TTL 86400
ns1.espersonline.com.   IN      SOA     localhost       root    (
                                29 ; serial
                                28800 ; refresh
                                14400 ; retry
                                3600000 ; expire
                                86400 ; ttl
                                )
 
 
 
bullet  IN      NS      bullet
 
bullet          IN      A       192.168.1.2
 
bullet.ns1.espersonline.com.            IN CNAME        bullet

I looked in /etc/named.conf, but there was no mention of
espersonline.zone anywhere.  Do I need to add it manually?  Also the
location of the espersonline.zone file was a little weird.  It was in
/var/named/chroot/var/named.  Is this normal?
 
 
 

> 
> ______________________________________________________________________
> From: Alexander Dalloz <alexander.dalloz at uni-bielefeld.de>
> To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> Subject: Re: Need DNS help
> Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2004 02:00:37 +0200
> 
> Am Sa, den 18.09.2004 schrieb Michael Sullivan um 1:49:
> 
> > 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
> 
> > Status is always either NXDOMAIN or SERVFAIL.  What am I doing wrong and
> > how do I fix it?  Please help!
> 
> Please post the zone file for espersonline.com and too the corresponding
> part of the named.conf.
> 
> I currently get
> 
> ;; ANSWER SECTION:
> espersonline.com.       172793  IN      NS      ns1.espersonline.com.
> 
> and
> 
> $ dig -t ANY espersonline.com @ns1.epsersonline.com
> dig: Couldn't find server 'ns1.epsersonline.com': Name or service not
> known
> 
> Alexander
> 
> 
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