setting name server in linux.

[faizy]

need help and proper formatting of setting up:

. master primary name server (red hat linux 7.1)

need help in setting the RIGHT named.conf file, along with entries to do a RESOLVING of its own (so settting up a collection of A records, CNAME records and maybe MX). so then we obviously need to setup a filename.rev for setting up a reverse lookup.. *AND* its related entries.

domain: ndd430.com
router: router (router.ndd430.com)
mail,ftp,www,imap,pop3 <-- ALL these machines are cname records (pointing towards) router, which is pointing to router.ndd430.com

"router" ip address: 150.149.0.1 and 192.168.0.1

can someone please help me in setting up all the .conf and .rev and hint files? please? i've searched the web and redhat's pages, but NOT much of detailed, TO THE POINT help is available.

[Najim]

Did u try

http://www.isc.org/products/BIND/

Have a look, if you cant get help from there then let me know & I will see what I can do for u.

[faizy]

just looked at it.. and since the audience in these sites are assumed to be networking professionals and NOT just entry level students like myself, so having trouble understanding .. i mean WHAT the heck? bind? and here i am trying to configure the daemon called named and just dunno what the heck is going on here.. :-) u knoww..

khair, talked to couple of professors and they agreed to use outside help, now i am told i gotta install two things .. named and something called bind in order to make a forward zone, lookup(reverse) zone up, but no caching (so named.ca shouldnt be touched).

that dns information should be in a form that windows 2000 advance server can receive it (who is working as a resolver). so the zoning should be in proper format.

[Hawkeye]

Install webmine to do it easy way

It seems you are a newbea. I suggest you download Webmin,

http://www.webmin.com

Download the rpm for your platform and use "rpm -vhU filename" to install webmin. You need to be root to do that. This will start a webserver on port 10000 on localhost. You can connect to webmin by http://localhost:10000. There is a module for configuring BIND which will make it very easy to configure zones and other options.

However, as a note of caution ... Running BIND securely requires some experience and knowledge ... Don't take things for granted ... Don't forget to restrict Webmin access to the HOME_NET machines.

[Hawkeye]

Originally posted by faizy:
just looked at it.. and since the audience in these sites are assumed to be networking professionals and NOT just entry level students like myself, so having trouble understanding .. i mean WHAT the heck? bind? and here i am trying to configure the daemon called named and just dunno what the heck is going on here.. :-) u knoww..

khair, talked to couple of professors and they agreed to use outside help, now i am told i gotta install two things .. named and something called bind in order to make a forward zone, lookup(reverse) zone up, but no caching (so named.ca shouldnt be touched).

that dns information should be in a form that windows 2000 advance server can receive it (who is working as a resolver). so the zoning should be in proper format.

BIND is an acronym for Berkkely Internet Naming Daemon and the actually process which runs is "named". So they are the same thing and not two things. And please do configure the reverse zones properly, this is the most common mistake made by the newbeas. Use "dig" for testing your DNS, or send me the IP and I'll test it for you

[faizy]

project is given three machines, and one client.they wont be hooked up to a live network SUCH as internet..

the client, running 192.168 series will be testing to release/renew dhcp behind the linux router so all that networking aspect is there..

because its a prototype and we were allowed three machines, ONLY linux was asked to be router, we thought what the hell, lets use ALL services on linux.. but now its getting better, one of friends put the zoning and stuff on 2000 adv, worked like charm, so we used the linux for the resolving only .. cuz we figured we've spend TOO much time researching proper stuff for bind/named related things..

dhcp scopes were much easier ...

and yes, i am a newbie :-) (everyone starts at some point rite).

[Hawkeye]

[ but now its getting better, one of friends put the zoning and stuff on 2000 adv, worked like charm, so we used the linux for the resolving only .. cuz we figured we've spend TOO much time researching proper stuff for bind/named related things..

dhcp scopes were much easier ...

and yes, i am a newbie :-) (everyone starts at some point rite). [/QUOTE]

Well, I wish you luck, becuase you really need a lot of luck on running a DNS on Win2K ... Well, may be for a student project it would be OK ... Let me know if you have any questions ...

And yes, everyone start at some point ... Keep it up!

[faizy]

:-) who said its for professional field work? its our second last project of the semester.. FIRST i wanted to run naming on redhat, but hey, they allowed "whatever means necessary", asked for a DEFINED functionality .. oh well .. we'll do what will work ..if it falls apart, oh well

[Hawkeye]

Originally posted by faizy:
:-) who said its for professional field work? its our second last project of the semester.. FIRST i wanted to run naming on redhat, but hey, they allowed "whatever means necessary", asked for a DEFINED functionality .. oh well .. we'll do what will work ..if it falls apart, oh well

Personally, even when I was student, I wanted to do a good job ... As much professional as I could ... anyway, Good Luck !

[faizy]

:-)

[faizy]

done, reverse lookup was the first one that was working. forward looking didnt worked (initially) as the parenthesis (starting) was on the second line, one of the dumbBUTT group members was working on it from client machine (testing, same network) and had messed it up..

/var/log/messages played a VITAL role in pinpointing.