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Failure restarting BIND DNS with Webmin following above instructions
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August 30th, 2012, 06:50 PM
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Failure restarting BIND DNS with Webmin following above instructions
When I do the sticky of this subforum that goes on about how to set up DNS in webmin,
And then as I finish, I restart BIND DNS Server, I 'stop' and then 'start' it, in the top right corner
I get:
PHP Code:
Failed to start BIND : Starting named: Error in named configuration: zone localhost.localdomain/IN: loaded serial 0 zone localhost/IN: loaded serial 0 zone 1.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.ip6.arpa/IN: loaded serial 0 zone 1.0.0.127.in-addr.arpa/IN: loaded serial 0 zone 0.in-addr.arpa/IN: loaded serial 0 zone mydomain.com/IN: NS 'ns1.mydomain.com' has no address records (A or AAAA) zone mydomain.com/IN: NS 'ns2.mydomain.com' has no address records (A or AAAA) zone mydomain.com/IN: NS 'mydomain.com' has no address records (A or AAAA) zone mydomain.com/IN: not loaded due to errors. _default/mydomain.com/IN: bad zone [FAILED]
I'm on a dedi. I was hoping to get one of my IPs hosted as its own nameserver, with its own dedicated IP. Somehow I think I´ve failed but can't pinpoint what I've done wrong.
I'm also not sure I'll successfully be able to point the domain from namecheap to this server as I haven't experience with webmin. I'm currently fidgeting about over at namecheap to get it there, but my failure at DNS BIND seems to indicate this is a more important problem.
When in address records, I input one of the dedicated IPs, not the IP where the webmin is sitting at. But even when I later on tried the webmin IP, I also got this message about BIND.
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August 30th, 2012, 07:02 PM
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The sticky for Webmin is probably a little outdated. I will need to get that updated at some point.
In the meantime though, can you post your zone config so that I can take a look at what you have done.
Also, at the registrar, have you placed the nameservers (and DNS hosts if needed)?
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August 30th, 2012, 07:16 PM
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First of all thanks for the sticky, I think I'd be a zillion times more lost without it right now.
By Zone Config, do you mean, under BIND DNS Server in Webmin, ''Edit Config File'', this is what's there:
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// // named.conf // // Provided by Red Hat bind package to configure the ISC BIND named(8) DNS // server as a caching only nameserver (as a localhost DNS resolver only). // // See /usr/share/doc/bind*/sample/ for example named configuration files. // options { listen-on port 53 { any; }; listen-on-v6 port 53 { any; }; directory "/var/named"; dump-file "/var/named/data/cache_dump.db"; statistics-file "/var/named/data/named_stats.txt"; memstatistics-file "/var/named/data/named_mem_stats.txt"; recursion yes; dnssec-enable yes; dnssec-validation no; dnssec-lookaside auto; /* Path to ISC DLV key */ bindkeys-file "/etc/named.iscdlv.key"; }; logging { channel default_debug { file "data/named.run"; severity dynamic; }; }; zone "." IN { type hint; file "named.ca"; }; include "/etc/named.rfc1912.zones"; zone "mydomain.com" { type master; file "/var/named/mydomain.com.hosts"; };
Over at namecheap, I also don't know what I'm doing, but under 'Nameserver Registration, I've added the IP address to ns1.mydomain.com and ns2.mydomain.com. Despite, having added the IP, it saying only ns2.mydomain.com had updated, when I 'Find all existing nameservers', it gives me both ns1 and ns2 with the IP.
Over at domain name server setup I have also changed the custom DNS Servers to the ns1 and ns2.mydomain.com I now was hoping to get working.
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August 30th, 2012, 08:08 PM
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Quote: | Originally Posted by flurpny First of all thanks for the sticky, I think I'd be a zillion times more lost without it right now.
By Zone Config, do you mean, under BIND DNS Server in Webmin, ''Edit Config File'', this is what's there:
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No... under Webmin, it will be listed under BIND DNS Server. Look under Existing DNS Server and click on the zone you created.
Click on Edit Records File and paste what you see there.
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August 30th, 2012, 08:36 PM
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Quote: | Originally Posted by hiker No... under Webmin, it will be listed under BIND DNS Server. Look under Existing DNS Server and click on the zone you created.
Click on Edit Records File and paste what you see there. |
$ttl 38400
mydomain.com. IN SOA mydomain.com. info.mydomain.com. (
1346390600
10800
3600
604800
38400 )
mydomain.com. IN NS mydomain.com.
www.mydomain.com. IN A 123.123.123.123
mydomain.com. IN NS ns1.mydomain.com.
mydomain.com. IN NS ns2.mydomain.com.
mail.mydomain.com. IN MX 10 mail.mydomain.com.
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August 30th, 2012, 08:54 PM
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Quote: | Originally Posted by flurpny $ttl 38400
mydomain.com. IN SOA mydomain.com. info.mydomain.com. (
1346390600
10800
3600
604800
38400 )
mydomain.com. IN NS mydomain.com.
www.mydomain.com. IN A 123.123.123.123
mydomain.com. IN NS ns1.mydomain.com.
mydomain.com. IN NS ns2.mydomain.com.
mail.mydomain.com. IN MX 10 mail.mydomain.com. |
You need to create additional A records. You only have an A record for www.mydomain.com. You need to create an A record for:
mydomain.com
ns1.mydomain.com
ns2.mydomain.com
mail.mydomain.com
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August 30th, 2012, 09:30 PM
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Now I'm getting:
Failed to start BIND : Starting named: [FAILED]
i created address records for the ones you suggested, I think. I tried to take the ending period off them but they wouldn't budge.
this is my records file:
$ttl 38400
mydomain.com. IN SOA mydomain.com. info.mydomain.com. (
1346390606
10800
3600
604800
38400 )
mydomain.com. IN NS mydomain.com.
www.mydomain.com. IN A 123.123.123.123
mydomain.com. IN NS ns1.mydomain.com.
mydomain.com. IN NS ns2.mydomain.com.
mail.mydomain.com. IN MX 10 mail.mydomain.com.
mydomain.com. IN A 123.123.123.123
ns1.mydomain.com. IN A 123.123.123.123
ns2.mydomain.com. IN A 123.123.123.123
mail.mydomain.com. IN A 123.123.123.123
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August 31st, 2012, 09:20 PM
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If you remove the ending periods, it will make the listings relative. In other words, if you just had mydomain.com (without the ending period) it would append mydomain.com to the end giving you mydomain.com.mydomain.com. In other words, leave the ending period.
You should check your log files to see what is happening when you try to start named.
What flavor of linux are you running?
Either posting the domain or PMing it to me would allow me to assist more...
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August 31st, 2012, 11:48 PM
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I'm using CentOS 6.2.
I'll pm you my domain name.
As for checking my log files when I try to start named, I'm not entirely sure what you mean. As far as I know when it comes to log files, I go to Webmin Actions Log, and an attempt to Start BIND over at BIND DNS Server results in Failed to start BIND:Starting named: FAILED. But the webmin actions log don't show whatever is happening when this fails. The webmin actions log, however, does show quite a few actions I was up to yesterday when I was creating a-records etc.
From yesterday, the webmin actions log actually shows when I stopped the DNS Server, but it then goes on to fail to describe the attempts I made at restarting it.
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September 1st, 2012, 12:02 AM
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ok can't pm apparently, the domain in question is xmortgages dot com
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September 3rd, 2012, 09:59 PM
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OK, never mind we managed to solve the problem, something about user and group had to be renamed. But we've had more bumps along the ride and right now the server won't receive emails because apparently it doesn't have RDNS according to my support. I'm wondering if that's normal.
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