Re: Trying to setup Bind9 DNS first time

In article <c95lul$1atp$1@sf1.isc.org>,
Yogesh Sharma <ysharma@catprosystems.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am trying to setup Bind 9 with chroot on gentoo based server. I have
> domain purchased from godaddy.com and created ns1.catprosystems.net and
> ns2.catprosystems.net, currently both are pointing to my home server IP
> 66.116.69.208 using godaddy DNS service. I have another domain purchased
> from iregistrations.com jthebroker.com. When I am try to set name
> server for jthebroker.com at iregistrations.com it fails to set
> ns1.catprosystems.net and ns2.catprosystems.net. I have another domain
> with godaddy and I tried to set ns1/ns2.catprosystems.net as nameserver
> and it failed.

Your named.conf is missing:

zone "jthebroker.com" {
type master;
file "pri/jthebroker.zone";
};

and similar statements for the other domain.

>
> my named.conf is:
>
> options {
> directory "/var/bind";
> listen-on-v6 { none; };
> listen-on { 127.0.0.1; 192.168.101.1; 66.116.69.208; };
> pid-file "/var/run/named/named.pid";
> zone-statistics yes;
> recursion no;
> };
>
> zone "." IN {
> type hint;
> file "named.cache";
> };
>
> zone "localhost" IN {
> type master;
> file "pri/localhost.zone";
> allow-update { none; };
> notify no;
> };
>
> zone "127.in-addr.arpa" IN {
> type master;
> file "pri/127.zone";
> allow-update { none; };
> notify no;
> };
>
> I opened firewall port 53. Started named. What else do I need to do so
> the godaddy / iregistrations can allow me to set
> ns1/ns2.catprosystems.net as nameserver. My all config files are in
> /chroot/dns/ directory.
>
> Thanks
> YSharma

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