I have read the HOWTO & (I thought) folllowed the instructions quite well,
however it's not working, so something is wrong. I am running Redhat
5.0.
To test the server I enter "nslookup" , the following is the error message i
get : "*** Can't find server name for address 127.0.0.1: Server failed
Default Server: poblano.bconnected.net
Address: 209.53.0.1
This is an excerpt from my /var/log/messages file:
Aug 8 09:29:08 linuxbox named[4042]: starting. named 8.1.1 Sat Apr 4 00:44:35 EST 1998 ^Iroot@sideshow.redhat.com:/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/bind-8.1.1/src/bin/named
Aug 8 09:29:08 linuxbox named[4042]: /etc/named.conf:1: syntax error near ;
Aug 8 09:29:08 linuxbox named[4042]: listening [127.0.0.1].53 (lo)
Aug 8 09:29:08 linuxbox named[4042]: listening [209.53.23.91].53 (eth0)
Aug 8 09:29:08 linuxbox named[4042]: listening [192.168.1.1].53 (eth0:0)
Aug 8 09:29:08 linuxbox named[4042]: Forwarding source address is [127.0.0.1].1274
Aug 8 09:29:08 linuxbox named[4043]: Ready to answer queries.
Aug 8 09:33:50 linuxbox named[4043]: No root nameservers for class IN
configuration.
This is my /etc/named.conf file:
;
; a caching only nameserver config
;
directory /var/named
cache . named.ca
primary 0.0.127.in-addr.arpa named.local
And this is my /var/named/named.local file:
@ IN SOA localhost. root.localhost. (
1997022700 ; Serial
28800 ; Refresh
14400 ; Retry
3600000 ; Expire
86400 ) ; Minimum
IN NS localhost.
1 IN PTR localhost.
Thanks in Advance.
Bill Gillespie <bill@gillespie.bc.ca>
New Westminster, BC Canada