DNS stuff (bind cfg and theory)

[falko]

Originally Posted by Tenaka

g I am unsure about is this:lets say I do not use a dedicated NS instead I just let my webserver be a NS too, can I just use the servername like hxxxx.serverkompetenz.net (which resolves to my IP) instead of the usual naming convention aka ns.myserver.com ?

Yes, should be ok.

[Ovidiu]

I tried to test the DNS records of one of the domains I am offering NS for locally on my server at: http://www.dnsreport.com/
and it reported this error:

ERROR: One or more of the NS records that your nameservers report are invalid:
81.169.163.106. is not a valid host name (it must be a host name, not an IP address)
81.169.163.104. is not a valid host name (it must be a host name, not an IP address)

when registering the domain I gave my hostname and IP as NS, which is ok so far, the above IPs are the nameservers I have set in the /etc/resolve.conf (I think this is the file where the nameservers for my server are listed...) should I enter their names there instead of the IPs?

[falko]

81.169.163.106 and 81.169.163.104 are Strato name servers! When you register the domain, you have to set your own name servers as authoritative name servers for the domain!

[Ovidiu]

I did that.
I set up hxxxx.serverkompetenz.net (my servername) as the authoritative NS for my domain. Still when doing the test I get the above error, the domain I am talking about is zice.ro (test it here: h**p://w*w.dnsreport.com/tools/dnsreport.ch?domain=zice.ro )

[falko]

I did a

dig zice.ro

.
This doesn't look ok:

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
zice.ro.                10800   IN      NS      zice.ro.

It's the hen <-> egg problem.

Please post your zone file. Under Debian it must be something like /etc/bind/pri.zice.ro.

[Ovidiu]

$TTL 86400
@ IN SOA 81.169.163.104. admin.zice.ro. (
2005112301 ; serial, todays date + todays serial #
28800 ; refresh, seconds
7200 ; retry, seconds
604800 ; expire, seconds
86400 ) ; minimum, seconds
;
NS 81.169.163.104. ; Inet Address of name server 1
NS 81.169.163.106. ; Inet Address of name server 2
;

MX 10 mail.

zice.ro. A 81.169.176.18
www A 81.169.176.18
mail A 81.169.176.18

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

[falko]

Originally Posted by Tenaka

$TTL 86400
@ IN SOA 81.169.163.104. admin.zice.ro. (
2005112301 ; serial, todays date + todays serial #
28800 ; refresh, seconds
7200 ; retry, seconds
604800 ; expire, seconds
86400 ) ; minimum, seconds
;
NS 81.169.163.104. ; Inet Address of name server 1
NS 81.169.163.106. ; Inet Address of name server 2
;

MX 10 mail.

zice.ro. A 81.169.176.18
www A 81.169.176.18
mail A 81.169.176.18

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

You have put the Strato name servers into that file instead of your hxxx.serverkompetenz.net server. Try to change that.

[Ovidiu]

sorry I don't understand that. I Have the strato NS inside its the ...104 and ...106 IPs, my hxxxx.serverkompetenz.net is nowhere inside this file as you can see.

except here, but its ok here as I have understood:
zice.ro. A 81.169.176.18
www A 81.169.176.18
mail A 81.169.176.18

You just left me with a big questionmark on my face???

[falko]

Your file should look like this:

$TTL 86400
@ IN SOA hxxx.serverkompetenz.net. admin.zice.ro. (
2005112301 ; serial, todays date + todays serial #
28800 ; refresh, seconds
7200 ; retry, seconds
604800 ; expire, seconds
86400 ) ; minimum, seconds
;
NS hxxx.serverkompetenz.net. ; Inet Address of name server 1
NS hxxx.serverkompetenz.net. ; Inet Address of name server 2
;

MX 10 mail.

zice.ro. A 81.169.176.18
www A 81.169.176.18
mail A 81.169.176.18

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

So somewhere in your ISPConfig settings you have entered the IP addresses of Strato's name servers instead of hxxx.serverkompetenz.net.

[Ovidiu]

*doh*
I was stupid ;-) got it working now, thx