Problem with system-config-bind
Debbie Deutsch
fedora at ddeutsch.org
Tue May 3 22:06:05 UTC 2005
Thanks for your help. I finally broke down and did as you suggest - edited
the named.conf file to refer to my zone files. It appears to have worked.
Debbie
> -----Original Message-----
> From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com
> [mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Craig White
> Sent: Monday, May 02, 2005 8:12 PM
> To: For users of Fedora Core releases
> Subject: Re: Problem with system-config-bind
>
> On Mon, 2005-05-02 at 18:42 -0400, Debbie Deutsch wrote:
> > I have upgraded my system from Redhat 9 to Fedora Core 3.
> Previously
> > I was serving my own domain, no problems. Now that is not
> working.
> > The problem seems to be in the configuration.
> >
> > 1. There is a new named.config file that was installed
> during the upgrade.
> > The old config file was nicely saved under another name.
> > 2. The original zone information in /var/named appears to be
> > unchanged, but it is not being recognized by Bind, probably because
> > the new named.config file does not reference my zone file. I have
> > attempted to use system-config-bind while logged in as root
> to fix this.
> >
> > - while using the tool, adding a record for the zone causes all the
> > original records for the zone to be recognized. However, I can't
> > successfully save the updated config file due to an error,
> > "AttributeError: NS instance has no attribute 'owner'.
> > - I have also tried renaming the original zone file and
> recreating it
> > from scratch using the system-config-bind tool, but the
> same error occurs.
> > - In both instances the nameserver record attempts to
> designate a host
> > named like this - ns.mydomain.com - to serve mydomain.com. The
> > hostname ns.mydomain.com is an alias for mydomain.com.
> Also, I have
> > left the little box to the left of "mydomain.com" blank in the
> > nameserver record window because I want the server to serve
> all of mydomain.com.
> >
> > 3. The version numbers for system-config-tool and the
> online help for
> > system-config-tool match, but the dialogue windows shown in
> the tool
> > and in the documentation for creating a new forward master zone do
> > not. Alas, the tool's help documentation says nothing
> about creating a nameserver record.
> >
> > Any suggestions for troubleshooting this? Should I simply resort to
> > editing named.config by hand to point to my zone file?
> >
> > Many thanks in advance.
> >
> > Debbie
> >
> > P.S. My system ran happily with Redhat 9 for almost 2
> years, and yes I
> > am the person who configured it originally. I am very comfortable
> > around computers, but no expert when it comes to Linux
> configuration.
> > So, don't hold back, but don't assume I know all the ins
> and outs of
> > Linux administration. I may be overlooking something very
> basic here.
> ---
> ls -l /var/named
>
> are all the files owned by named:named ?
>
> I would probably edit the new /etc/named.conf file by hand
> and include the 'existing' zone files.
>
> Have you updated FC-3 all the way?
>
> also beware - depending upon method used to update...
>
> cat /etc/sysconfig/named
>
> you might be running named in a chroot environment which
> would have named put its files not in /var/named but rather
> /var/named/chroot/var/named
>
> Craig
>
> --
> fedora-list mailing list
> fedora-list at redhat.com
> To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
>
>
More information about the fedora-list
mailing list