Originally Posted by falko

What do you mean with that? Is www.xaix.com working, but you see the same page as when you type in ns.xaix.com in your browser?
Or can't you connect at all with www.xaix.com?
Which server is the DNS server for xaix.com? The machine where you installed ISPConfig?


You could have a look at
/etc/apache2/apache2.conf,
/etc/apache2/vhosts/Vhosts_ispconfig.conf and the files in /etc/bind.

Originally Posted by Ringo

What I mean is if you type in www.xaix.com .. it can't be found anymore, however if you type in ns.xaix.com - my temp page will show. Meaning a possible change in DNS because www.xaix.com was being resolved befor the installation. So Im assuming that something has changed but Im not sure what. Yes this server is also running DNS/apache/ipconfig.
I don't know if this might help or not but for some reason it didn't pick up my phpmyadmin or i should say it wont allow me to access it - however once again if I type in http://ns.xaix.com/phpmyadmin/ .. it shows. Most likely unrelated but ...
I'll take a look at apache conf and see whats up. It's a new server Im just now setting up, but I desided to use apache 1.3.3. Don't have any vhosts on the system YET >......
I've looked at etc/bind -- I made backups of all the files in that dir but theres no difference.
There seems to be a file missing from /root/ispconfig/<something>/ bind stuff ... I dunno....
Anyway thanks for a place to start looking :)

Originally Posted by till

There are no config files for your daemons under the /root/ispconfig/ tree. All the config files are in /etc/.

Is your server authorative for your domains? Have you configured the primary records for your domains in ISPConfig DNS-Manager after you have installed ispconfig? ISPConfig deletes all existing BIND configuration on your server during install and you have to setup your DNS-Records in DNS-Manager again.

Originally Posted by Ringo

Wow you guys are the best - thanks for the quick replys.

Yes my server is Authorative for all my domains. However I only have ONE domain atm - just my root domain which is xaix.com. I'd like to get this working correctly (or learn ispconfig better) before I actually transfer 100+ domains over hehe. Interesting comment about ISPConfig deleting my existing BIND config - are you saying it actually deletes all my /etc/bind/ * files?
If thats what is suppose to happen .. it has not done so. I was reading that the Primary DNS entry is set to "default" but I have changed those to IP addys and removed the Default FQDN that was there. Am I misunderstanding the docs?

Originally Posted by Ringo

I was reading that the Primary DNS entry is set to "default" but I have changed those to IP addys and removed the Default FQDN that was there. Am I misunderstanding the docs?

Originally Posted by till

No, it dont delete the /etc/bind/ * files, but it replaces your named.conf and your files in /etc/bind/ * are not included anymore.



What do you mean with that? After you installed ISPConfig, the BIND Configuration is empty, there are no zones at all as default. Dont change any config files manually, use the web inteface or your changes will get lost!

Originally Posted by Ringo

No no my bind config is as it was -- the problem is I can't find where ISPConfig changed my CNAME from www to ns ? right now you can access my site by ns.xaix.com but NOT www.xaix.com. it wasn't like that before so something has changed but I can't find where -- I've looked at the ispconfig files under root

Originally Posted by Ringo

but don't really know what file it's in or what i should change .. Im not very up on php coding. In the ISPConfig console the do I need to build that first DNS record? Do I need to build xaix.com even though it was built in bind before the installation?

Originally Posted by till

There are NO config files under /root/ispconfig for the daemons like bind, postfix and the main apache (See my post above).

Yes, I see that now - it replaces files in /etc/bind. Heres the problem I "think" Here is my orginial named.conf:
// prime the server with knowledge of the root servers
include "/etc/bind/named.conf.options";
=========================== this is actually in my options file which is included nc
options {
directory "/var/cache/bind";
version "[secured]";
allow-transfer { 216.240.130.2; };
statistics-file "/var/lib/named/named.stats";
dump-file "/var/lib/named/named.db";

//forwarders {
// 216.240.152.4;
// 216.240.130.2;
// };

//auth-nxdomain no; # conform to RFC1035

};

zone "." {
type hint;
file "/etc/bind/db.root";
};

// be authoritative for the localhost forward and reverse zones, and for
// broadcast zones as per RFC 1912

zone "localhost" {
type master;
file "/etc/bind/db.local";
};

zone "127.in-addr.arpa" {
type master;
file "/etc/bind/db.127";
};

zone "0.in-addr.arpa" {
type master;
file "/etc/bind/db.0";
};

zone "255.in-addr.arpa" {
type master;
file "/etc/bind/db.255";
};


// zone "com" { type delegation-only; };
// zone "net" { type delegation-only; };
include "/etc/bind/named.conf.local";
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
NEW named.conf:

options {
pid-file "/var/run/bind/run/named.pid";
directory "/etc/bind";
auth-nxdomain no;

zone "." {
type hint;
file "db.root";
};

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

zone "33.69.64.in-addr.arpa" {
type master;
file "pri.33.69.64.in-addr.arpa";
};


zone "ns.xaix.com" {
type master;
file "pri.ns.xaix.com";
};



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

The items in RED are not what I would call "normal" DNS entries for SOA. Let me rephrase this. In the orginial "auth-nxdomain no;" is commented out. In ISPConfigs replacement it is "uncommented" My current understanding of this is: the AA bit is always set on NXDOMAIN responses, even if the server is not actually authoritative. The default is yes. This server is indeed a SOA (or was till the installation of ISPConfig). So I'm taking this to mean that there is a possible change (obviously) in configs in bind that have changed my setup FROM SOA to a NON SOA server. The problem I'm having is obviously fixing this. My real question is should I or can I change this in the files themselves even though there is a comment that says ///// make manual entries below this line! ////? If not where can I set it to be SOA again. Secondly the last item in RED states that ns.xaix.com as a zone is actually "xaix.com" and ns.xaix.com is the SOA as pointed out in the zone file itself. So this does not seem correct to me as far as how ISPConfig as reasoned my DNS server to be. How can I correct these issues?





What result did you get when you run.

I cannot use that to get an answer because BIND is NOW misconfigured and this as written above will in fact time out. However dig @localhost NOW shows:
; <<>> DiG 9.2.4 <<>> @localhost
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 54589
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 13, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;. IN NS

;; ANSWER SECTION:
. 518400 IN NS J.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
. 518400 IN NS K.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
. 518400 IN NS L.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
. 518400 IN NS M.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
. 518400 IN NS A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
. 518400 IN NS B.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
. 518400 IN NS C.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
. 518400 IN NS D.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
. 518400 IN NS E.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
. 518400 IN NS F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
. 518400 IN NS G.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
. 518400 IN NS H.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
. 518400 IN NS I.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
J.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. 84178 IN A 192.58.128.30

;; Query time: 69 msec
;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#53(localhost)
;; WHEN: Fri Aug 26 20:29:32 2005
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 244



If the server is not authoritive for that domain, you have to add the domain in ISPConfig.

Originally Posted by Ringo

Again what I'm trying to say is -- THIS SERVER WAS SOA before the installation process -- so .

Originally Posted by Ringo

If I have missed something in the admin docs please point me to it.

Originally Posted by Ringo

If not how can I set my server back to SOA through the ISPConfig panel.