[NTLUG:Discuss] DNS Server Error -- Server Not Found

[Jay Urish]

On 5/1/2010 9:11 PM, dennis wrote:
> Back to the Linux training.  Have installed DNS on Fedora 12, and 
> after what I believe to have fixed the various errors, when running 
> host or dig, get error message of Server no found.
>
> Made the entries for the /etc/named.conf file by creating entries to 
> point to the forward zone file, reverse zone file and reverse local 
> file.  Learned that since my last setting up the dns that they have 
> added the include for the named.rfc... file that includes the local 
> forward file.  The files were installed in the 
> /var/named/chroot/var/named directory.  Learned that I had to manually 
> create links from the /var/named directory to the real files, OK.
>
> Since we have only one server, all of the server functions point to 
> the same IP address, such as:
> $TTS 86400
> @    IN    SOA   ... (....)
>                     IN    NS    namesvr.ittclass40.org.
> namesvr      IN    A      10.44.108.40
>
> The /etc/resolv.conf file was modified to comment out all other 
> entries and the server address (10.44.108.40) was entered in for the 
> nameserver address.
>
> The machine I am on is the 10.44.108.40, so doing a dns server search 
> on the same machine.
>
> When I did the service restart, got back the start OK.  Then did a dig 
> on the specified domain name and got back the Server not found message.
>
> Would appreciate some insight as to what / where I should look for.
>
> Dennis

Post the contents of your resolv.conf file...

Are you shure bind is listening to your external interface? I have mine 
set up to point to 127.0.0.1 (so it still works if the outside world is 
dead.)


Jay