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Nameserver Problem

Hi guys.

I am trying to add a new domain on my server. I want it to have its own nameserver ns.mydomain.com

I followed the steps outlined here:
http://www.howtoforge.com/ispconfig_dns_godaddy

However I can't get my newly set up nameserver to resolve the domain correctly.

dig @ns1.mydomain.com any mydomain.com

never returns this line:
mydomain.com. 86400 IN SOA ns1.mydomain.com. hostmaster.mydomain.com. 2006060705 28800 7200 604800 86400

So I guess the domain is not properly resolved by my nameserver.

I have read somewhere that ISPConfig only allows two nameservers. Well I got another domain on an add on ip using its own nameservers. Might this be causing the problem?

Any help with this is greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

Quote:

Originally Posted by marm26 (Post 168867)

dig @ns1.mydomain.com any mydomain.com

never returns this line:
mydomain.com. 86400 IN SOA ns1.mydomain.com. hostmaster.mydomain.com. 2006060705 28800 7200 604800 86400

What does it return?

What's in the zone file and in named.conf?

dig @ns1.mydomain.com any mydomain.com returns the following:

Quote:

; <<>> DiG 9.3.4-P1 <<>> @ns1.mydomain.com any mydomain.com
; (1 server found)
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 3024
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 13, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;mydomain.com. IN ANY

;; ANSWER SECTION:
mydomain.com. 11893 IN SOA ns51.domaincontrol.com. dns.jomax.net. 2009020600 28800 7200 604800 86400

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
com. 172570 IN NS I.GTLD-SERVERS.net.
com. 172570 IN NS J.GTLD-SERVERS.net.
com. 172570 IN NS K.GTLD-SERVERS.net.
com. 172570 IN NS L.GTLD-SERVERS.net.
com. 172570 IN NS M.GTLD-SERVERS.net.
com. 172570 IN NS A.GTLD-SERVERS.net.
com. 172570 IN NS B.GTLD-SERVERS.net.
com. 172570 IN NS C.GTLD-SERVERS.net.
com. 172570 IN NS D.GTLD-SERVERS.net.
com. 172570 IN NS E.GTLD-SERVERS.net.
com. 172570 IN NS F.GTLD-SERVERS.net.
com. 172570 IN NS G.GTLD-SERVERS.net.
com. 172570 IN NS H.GTLD-SERVERS.net.

;; Query time: 1 msec
;; SERVER: XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX#53(XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX)
;; WHEN: Thu Feb 12 07:10:26 2009
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 324

/etc/named.conf contains the following

Quote:

options {
pid-file "/var/named/chroot/var/run/named/named.pid";
directory "/var/named";
auth-nxdomain no;
/*
* 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
//
zone "." {
type hint;
file "named.root";
};

zone "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa" {
type master;
file "named.local";
};

zone "somedomain.net" {
type master;
file "pri.somedomain.net";
};
zone "mydomain.com" {
type master;
file "pri.mydomain.com";
};

//// MAKE MANUAL ENTRIES BELOW THIS LINE! ////

the zone file for mydomain.com in /var/named/pri.mydomain.com looks like this:

Quote:

$TTL 86400
@ IN SOA ns1.mydomain.com. name.mydomain.com. (
2009021009 ; serial, todays date + todays serial #
28800 ; refresh, seconds
7200 ; retry, seconds
604800 ; expire, seconds
86400 ) ; minimum, seconds
;
NS ns1.mydomain.com. ; Inet Address of name server 1
NS server1.mydomain.com. ; Inet Address of name server 2
;

MX 10 mail.mydomaina.com.

mydomain.com. A XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX
mail A XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX
www A XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX
mydomain.com. A XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX

mydomain.com. TXT "v=spf1 a mx ptr ~all"

;;;; MAKE MANUAL ENTRIES BELOW THIS LINE! ;;;;

I hope that helps.

after I added ns1.mydomain.com as an A record again the dig command now returns this:

Quote:

; <<>> DiG 9.3.4-P1 <<>> @ns1.mydomain.com any mydomain.com
; (1 server found)
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 32646
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 2

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;mydomain.com. IN ANY

;; ANSWER SECTION:
mydomain.com. 172800 IN NS ns1.mydomain.com.
mydomain.com. 172800 IN NS ns52.domaincontrol.com.

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
mydomain.com. 172800 IN NS ns52.domaincontrol.com.
mydomain.com. 172800 IN NS ns1.mydomain.com.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
ns1.mydomain.com. 172800 IN A XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX
ns52.domaincontrol.com. 172800 IN A 208.109.255.26

;; Query time: 101 msec
;; SERVER: XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX#53(XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX)
;; WHEN: Thu Feb 12 07:23:00 2009
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 146

Still doesnt look like this is right.

What do

Code:

dig @ns1.mydomain.com mydomain.com

dig @ns1.mydomain.com www.mydomain.com

dig @ns1.mydomain.com mail.mydomain.com

display?

dig @ns1.mydomain.com mydomain.com

Quote:

; (1 server found)
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 33098
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 1

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;mydomain.com. IN A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
mydomain.com. 3600 IN A 68.178.232.100

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
mydomain.com. 3600 IN NS ns52.domaincontrol.com.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
ns52.domaincontrol.com. 90904 IN A 208.109.255.26

;; Query time: 42 msec
;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1)
;; WHEN: Fri Feb 13 06:07:56 2009
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 100

dig @ns1.mydomain.com www.mydomain.com

Quote:

; (1 server found)
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 40015
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 1

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;www.mydomain.com. IN A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
www.mydomain.com. 3600 IN CNAME mydomain.com.
mydomain.com. 3487 IN A 68.178.232.100

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
mydomain.com. 3487 IN NS ns52.domaincontrol.com.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
ns52.domaincontrol.com. 90791 IN A 208.109.255.26

;; Query time: 41 msec
;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1)
;; WHEN: Fri Feb 13 06:09:49 2009
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 118

dig @ns1.mydomain.com mail.mydomain.com

Quote:

; (1 server found)
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 64837
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 3, AUTHORITY: 3, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;mail.mydomain.com. IN A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
mail.mydomain.com. 3600 IN CNAME pop.secureserver.net.
pop.secureserver.net. 3600 IN CNAME pop.where.secureserver.net.
pop.where.secureserver.net. 300 IN A 64.202.165.92

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
where.secureserver.net. 3600 IN NS gns3.secureserver.net.
where.secureserver.net. 3600 IN NS gns1.secureserver.net.
where.secureserver.net. 3600 IN NS gns2.secureserver.net.

;; Query time: 359 msec
;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1)
;; WHEN: Fri Feb 13 06:11:24 2009
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 171

The all seem to refer to the godaddy nameserver not my own???

Did you tell GoDaddy that you want to use your own nameservers for that domain?

Yes I did. I made added the new nameserver in a record. I added them in Host Summary, then pointed the domain to this new nameserver.

After this didnt work i tried something else. I have reset all the abouve changes. Now i am simply pointing the domain to an already established nameserver on ISPConfig. (I use this for another domain, actually I wanted those domains to be complety sepertated, hence I tried to add another nameserver)

But I am getting the same result. The nameserver does not properly resolve the new domain. Why is this not working? Everything in ISPCOnfig is set up 100% correctly. At least the things I can see inside the graphical interface...

Ok I seem to have found the problem but I have no idea how to fix it.

I restarted BIND and checked my server logs. BIND is loading the zone file for the first domain on my server but not the zone file for the new domain I wanted to add.

Any ideas on how to fix this?

Any errors or warnings in /home/admispconfig/ispconfig/ispconfig.log?
What's the output of

Code:

ls -la /root/ispconfig