1 Ip ?

needing a bit of help here lol =/

heres my situation, im an medium/advanced home user with a high spec windows box [non-dedi] and a dedicated linux box [ low powered, 350mhz, 128mb ram]. Im running on redhat 9, an ircd, psyBNC, 'standard server' services [www, ftp, ssh, etc.] plesk. This is all running through a d-link xDSL router/modem [combo -what can i say, im a cheap skate], on a 1mb connection [standard home 50:1 cont. ratio, 256k upload, etc] which my windows box is also connected to.

im guessing by now you have compiled a nice long list of complaints and problems about this setup, but it works (just) and thats all i want, i use redhat because im too slow to use something like debian/freebsd and it comes with everything i wan/need.a

Now on to the problem: I have purchased a static ip for this connection, and want to run a dns server for my domain basically, especially since i recently started running an ircd, people (and myself) dont want to and really shouldnt be force to remember my ip im trying to use myself as a nameserver to point to myself again

as per the standard installation on redhat and plesk, bind is allready set up, and i get a nice 'nooby' interface for me to acecss from win windows box via https.

So far i have:

+ added ns1.syserr0r.net & ns2.syserr0r.net as my primary and secondary nameservers, both pointing to my static ip, via another 'nooby' interface from my registra.

+ Opened port 53 -tcp on my router [made it point to the linux box - internal ip of 192.168.0.2, router is 192.168.0.1 fyi] will open port 53 upd when i get home [thanks to a previous post here]

+ added domain on the plesk cpanel, syserr0r.net on the defaul doman template. will modify the ns cname to ns1 when i get home.

+ A record for syserr0r.net on plesk is 192.168.0.2, i need to make this my external ip, right ?

now, i ran a dns check on my system[err, >Link< ], and obviously half of it isnt working, because i havent opened port / renamed ns to ns1 / changed ip, but i would like to know about some of the other errors and how to fix them.

also, i feel i need more control over the above nameserver, and would like to know where the aproprate config file(s) are for bind. Looks like i need to change an SOA serial, SOA MNAME and RNAME, as well as the timings for TTL Refresh Retry, etc.

im guessing at the bottom of that report that the mx mail and www server(s) cant be accessed because its not successfully querying my nameservers.

Lastly on a side-note is syserr0r.net correctly set up to point to my nameservers, ive set the nameservers and A name entry for syserror.net to my external IP =/ and what is the port used for *incoming* dns *queries* ? is it still 53 ?


thanks, sorry for such a long post, probably left something out lol

if i cant do this on 1 static ip, just tell me and that will save you reading all this =)

ah, yeah. So I'm going to pretend that your post said nothing more than:

"something's wrong with my domain syserr0r.net!"

Well I took a look at it in DNS report, and it's a royal mess, so I'm going to start with DNS Crawler. First let's see what name servers are set at your registrar as the hosts for your domain. First I go to my website, click on the dns crawler link, then I plug your domain into the name bux and press submit query. Then I click the "A.GTLD-SERVERS.NET" link to see what it has to say:

dig @a.gtld-servers.net syserr0r.net

Looks fine. 2 name servers both pointing to the same IP. Nothing wrong with that. So now I click the back button to take a look at the full resolution again:

dig syserr0r.net

Looks like we got a server failure. What does this mean? Well click on the green link.

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So let's say I just remembered something from your post. You want to know how to manually edit your zone files since it appears your nooby interface has smashed up your zone file. It is probably located in the /var/named directory. The name of the file is either "syserr0r.net.zone" or "syserr0r.net.db" or something similar. After you make changes to the file enter this command "rndc reload" then check the second link above to see if you still get the server failure. If you can't seem to fix it, ATTACH your zone file to your reply.