Comments on: Ubuntu DNS Server Guide - BIND Master Server Setup

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Sat, 09 Aug 2008 16:21:48 +0000

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By: hemajang

hemajang — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 07:10:43 +0000

I’ve been following your tutorials, from setting up LAMP to configuring a DNS caching nameserver and everything has gone great so far. This tutorial(dns server guide bind master server setup)however, has me scratching my head.

In the first section, making up a fictional domain, where did you get all those ip addresses for the hosts? Are they static ip addresses assigned to the other machines? If they are, is it necessary to set a static ip to all machines on the network? How would I go about setting it up where only the server has a static ip and the other machines still use dhcp assigned ip addresses?

Thank you, great work, I love Ubuntu

By: Don

Don — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 19:10:31 +0000

Thanks for your EXTENSIVE help with this [inexplicably complex] subject. I just wanted to highlight the fact that I spent a long time finding out the you MUST have a SPACE before the “IN NS john.mydomain.lan.” entry in the Reverse DNS config file (in your example: “/etc/bind/zones/rev.1.168.192.in-addr.arpa “)
Without that space in there, it doesn’t reconize the NS entry, and it all goes to …. at that point. Thanks again for this great summary.

Don

By: N. Miller

N. Miller — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 20:19:15 +0000

FYI, cutting and pasting from the web page to your own config files will give you “smart quotes” instead of the literal quote created from shift+comma. This will prevent bind from starting–just something to be aware of.

Thanks again for the succinct how-to’s.

By: Sam

Sam — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 12:14:15 +0000

@bayu - Thanks for the note on listing all registered domains on the local DNS server

By: bayu

bayu — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 01:33:31 +0000

Hi Sam,

Thanks for your previous answer.

Another note/question:
On last paragraph to check DNS, you said by “dig mydomain.lan” will show all of hosts on AUTHORITY SECTION.
I think the authority section only show the “authoritative name server” of “mydomain.lan” domain, thus NOT all of hosts on our local network (registered on our local DNS).

If we want to show all the hosts registered on mydomain.lan local DNS server, we can use command: host -l mydomain.lan.

CMIIW.

Thanks,
[bayu]

By: Sam

Sam — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 20:29:50 +0000

@bayu - I would use the hostmaster.mydomain.lan version of this line. I am not sure why someone would use root instead.

By: bayu

bayu — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 08:16:48 +0000

Hi,

On two lines below:
===
mydomain.lan. IN SOA john.mydomain.lan. hostmaster.mydomain.lan.

mydomain.lan. IN SOA john.mydomain.lan. root.mydomain.lan.
===

What is the difference between “hostmaster.mydomain.lan” and some tutorial put “root.mydomain.lan”.
Is the “root” hostname should be there (exist on the network)?

Thanks,

By: Sam

Sam — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 01:29:00 +0000

@Zinv - I don’t think I understand your predicament completely but as I was reading your comment I thought that perhaps you can get requests to your other two domain names (with unique IP addresses on your VPN) to be forwarded to your primary domain via a php redirect or using your .htaccess file. This may be easier than trying to configure your own DNS server.

By: Zinv

Zinv — Wed, 28 May 2008 16:15:49 +0000

I’ve been looking all over the place for a tut/guide that can help me with resolving multiple domain names to my server. I have a few names registered with godaddy. My VPS provider gives me 3 ip addresses. I initially set up only one ip that my webserver would be listening on. I’ve successfully forwarded my primary domain over to the server and can access it. BTW, the name server I supplied godaddy was the two from my vps provider.

I’m stuck when it comes to forwarding my other domain names to my server. I figured i’d have to setup my own dns server on the box using my 3rd IP. I’ve gone through all the similar guides but havent had any luck. BIND is installed correctly with no errors, but my issue is how i go about having my names point my new DNS server. I went to godaddy and tried to supply the IP (the 3rd ip) of my new DNS server but for some reason it didnt like taking the standard IP convention. Its likes NS1.xxx.com, NS2.xxx.com, etc.

I’ve created seperate zones for the other domains, but for some reason they’re not resolving. when i dig i get a response, but i also see SERVFAIL.

Any Ideas on where to start my troubleshooting will be apprecaited. Thanks.