SUMMARY: Re: DNS configuration - help setting up secondary database....

From: Sanjay Gowda (sgowda@idt.com)
Date: Fri Sep 06 1996 - 16:20:39 CDT


Hello,

I would like to thank John Justin Hough <john@oncology.uthscsa.edu>,
for helping me resolve some of the DNS issues that I had.

For some reason, the DNS server was not letting the
secondary DNS servers from downloading tables.

Looking in /var/adm/messages, I found that some
of the host names had an "_" underscore in them.
(I did not assign those host names :-). I also
remember reading somewhere that newer versions
of BIND.

As soon as I cleaned up the hosts table and
replaced "_" (underscore) with "-" (dash),
named daemon let the secondary servers download
the tables as it should.

Once again, I would like to thank John for his help.

Thanks.

Sanjay

My original question:
>
> Hello Everybody,
>
> Here is my second question (already?) for the day:
> Please help.
>
> I was successful in compiling bind.4.9.3 and have set
> up the primary DNS server for our domain "oregon.idt.com".
>
> "catwoman" - is our DNS server and its IP address is: 157.165.185.93
>
> Here is "catwoman" 's named.boot file:
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
> ;
> ; type domain source file
> ;
>
> directory /etc/bind ; running directory for named
> slave
> cache . db.cache
> forwarders 157.165.140.11 157.165.185.75 157.165.5.20
>
> cache . secondary.ca
>
> primary 0.0.127.IN-ADDR.ARPA db.127.0.0
> primary oregon.idt.com db.oregon
> primary 185.165.157.IN-ADDR.ARPA db.157.165.185
> primary 186.165.157.IN-ADDR.ARPA db.157.165.186
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> When I execute on another workstation,
>
> nslookup - catwoman
>
> "catwoman" responds with host names as it is supposed to.
>
> Now I am trying to bring up a secondary DNS server (sec_dns),
> where I have compiled bind.4.9.3 (same code) :
>
> When I bring up "named" on the secondary side, the syslog
> error messages I get are as follows:
>
> Sep 5 14:44:37 sec_dns named[22399]: reloading nameserver
> Sep 5 14:44:37 sec_dns named[22399]: Ready to answer queries.
> Sep 5 14:44:37 sec_dns named[22399]: Err/TO getting serial# for
> "oregon.idt.com"
> Sep 5 14:44:37 sec_dns named[22399]: Err/TO getting serial# for
> "185.165.157.IN-ADDR.ARPA"
> Sep 5 14:44:37 sec_dns named-xfer[22525]: [157.165.185.93] not
> authoritative for oregon.idt.com, SOA query got rcode 0, aa 0, ancount
> 1, aucount 0
> Sep 5 14:44:37 sec_dns named-xfer[22526]: [157.165.185.93] not
> authoritative for 185.165.157.IN-ADDR.ARPA, SOA query got rcode 0, aa 0,
> ancount 1, aucount 0
>
> Here is "sec_dns"'s named.boot file:
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
> ;
> ; type domain source file
> ;
>
> directory /etc/bind ; running directory for named
> slave
> cache . db.cache
> forwarders 157.165.185.75 157.165.140.11 157.165.5.20
>
> primary 0.0.127.IN-ADDR.ARPA db.127.0.0
>
> secondary oregon.idt.com 157.165.185.93
> db.secondary
> secondary 185.165.157.IN-ADDR.ARPA 157.165.185.93
> db.sec.157.165.185
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> What is it that I am doing wrong? I am appealing to all you
> experts out there who might have come across similar
> error messages?
>
> Thank you.
>
> Sanjay
>
> PS: Both "named" binaries were compiled from the same source
> code - if that helps.
> --
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Sanjay K Gowda sgowda@idt.com
> System Administrator 503-681-6382
> Integrated Device Technology Hillsboro, Oregon
> http://www.thebbslist.com/free-page/sgowda.html
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Sanjay K Gowda                                    sgowda@idt.com
System Administrator                              503-681-6382
Integrated Device Technology                      Hillsboro, Oregon 
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