BIND server doesn't resolve private domain

Hi,

I am trying to setup a private domain zone (e.g. mydomain.local) on a BIND 9.2.2 server. This server is just a caching-only name server (not authorized for any zones.).

I created a zone entry in the named.conf file and also the zone file mydomain.local.zone for this private domain.

When I use nslookup or dig to query the server, every public domain is queryable except this private domain (and it is the only one). I did use named-checkconf and named-checkzone to verify these configuration files.

My understanding is if I send a query to the name server, it will check its named.conf file. If it find a zone entry with a matched name, it will return the zone information. But I just can't get it resolve the private domain name.

Would anyone tell me what do I miss in this situation? Also, named doesn't seem to be able to create a log file even I have configured it in the named.conf.

Thanks

Keith


// generated by named-bootconf.pl

options {
directory "/var/named";
/*
* If there is a firewall between you and nameservers you want
* to talk to, you might need to uncomment the query-source
* directive below. Previous versions of BIND always asked
* questions using port 53, but BIND 8.1 uses an unprivileged
* port by default.
*/
// query-source address * port 53;

};

//
// a caching only nameserver config
//
controls {
inet 127.0.0.1 allow { localhost; } keys { rndckey; };
};

logging {
channel query_logging {
file "query.log" versions 3 size 100M;
print-category yes;
print-severity yes;
print-time yes;
};

category queries {
query_logging;
};
};


zone "." IN {
type hint;
file "named.ca";
};

zone "localhost" IN {
type master;
file "localhost.zone";
allow-update { none; };
};

zone "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa" IN {
type master;
file "named.local";
allow-update { none; };
};

zone "mydomain.local" {
type master;
file "mydomain.local";

};


include "/etc/rndc.key";

show me the results of this command:

ps -Af | grep 'named'

Hi SilentRage,

Here is output of the command, thanks.

named 6635 1 0 Jul29 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/named -u named -t /var/named/chroot
root 7188 7139 0 07:34 pts/3 00:00:00 grep named

Keith

Hi,

I have figured out what the problem was. BIND was configured to use /var/named/chroot as the working directory. However, I put all my zone file in the /etc/named directory and that is why no zone file is loaded when named is started.

Thanks again for your hints.

Keith

hehehe, I love it when I hit a problem right on the nose straight up. That's why I had ya run that command, I wanted a peek to see if it used chroot.