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herman.viaene@online.be writes:

> I have an isolated home network (up to now peer-to-peer) with Mandrake
> 8.0 server and workstation and have NFS mounts and sambe working well.
> Now I want to setup DNS (just for the fun of it) and took the DNS Howto

DNS?  Fun?  I don't think so.  Setting it up and making it secure is a
pretty big challenge, as in pain in the backside.

> as a guide. I am not sure that everything I set up is quite correct
> since the doc talks on bind8, but here I have bind9, but comparing named
> files that existed etc. and using linuxconf got me somewhere but not
> where I want to be, since I get stuck on the test:
> The howto tells to run "dig -x 127.0.0.1" and here is the answer I get:
> 
> ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: SERVFAIL, id 18472
> flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
> 
> QUESTION SECTION:
> 1.0.0.127. in-addr.arpa.,	,	IN,	PTR
> 
> Query time: 31 msec
> SERVER: 127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1)
> When: Sat Jan 5 13:58:08 2002
> MSG SIZE rcvd: 40
> 
> The howto says: if not correct, go back and check everything. That
> advice is correct without doubt, but as the version of the tools is
> different it does not get me very far.
> 
> Somebody has a hint, pointer to some more uptodate doc

The best uptodate doc is in your /usr/share/doc/bind-9 directory.  Are
you trying to create a caching only server or a regular BIND server?
Maybe it would help if you explained what you've done so far.  What
does your /etc/named.conf say and what have you got for your db files?  For
a regular server you need 3 db files (db.127, db.localhost and
db.cache) in named's root directory (you could name them something
else, but it's easier to call them what it says in the docs).  And
also what kinds of errors show up in /var/log/messages when you start
up the service -- it will give you some useful hints as to what you
are doing wrong with your config.  

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