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Re: need help with BIND9

Michael Shuler wrote: 
On 11/14/2007 02:53 AM, lists@pgrworld.com wrote:
  
I need help setting up nameservers for my own domain.  The IPs and
domains have been changed for privacy ;-)
    
..which makes it difficult to properly troubleshoot.

  
$TTL 1h
@ SOA ns1.mydomain.com. root.mydomain.com. (
 2007110805; Serial (date + two digit serial)
 10800 ; Refresh (3 hours)
 3600 ; Retry (1 hour)
 86400 ; Expire (1 day)
 60 ) ; Default TTL 1 min
 NS ns1.mydomain.com.
 MX mail.mydomain.com.
 A 1.1.1.1

    ns1    A    1.1.1.1
    mail    A    1.1.1.1
    www    A    1.1.1.1

What could be the problem?
    
If you are going to host authoritative DNS for mydomain.com. on a name
server host under the same domain, for example ns1.mydomain.com., then
you need to seed the process of finding your authoritative name server
via a glue A record at your domain registrar - this A record for
ns1.mydomain.com. gets pushed up to the com. TLD servers, so that
recursive resolvers around the Internet can find the correct name server
to ask, "where is mydomain.com.".

Thanks for the reply!  I've investigated this at my domain registrar, and ns1.mydomain.com did get pushed to the .com TLD servers (or root servers)

Also, so that it'll be easier to troubleshoot, I will be using my actual info (oh no!)

The domain is CD-EXPRESS.COM
NS1.CD-EXPRESS.COM already resolves to my static IP of 208.127.75.221

My domain registrar said that I need a primary and secondary server assigned, so I created NS2.CD-EXPRESS.COM to point to the same IP 208.127.75.221

my bind settings is as follows (I've removed comments with a "//"):
********************** NAMED.CONF start ***********************************************************
include "/etc/bind/named.conf.options";

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

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";
};

include "/etc/bind/named.conf.local";

********************** NAMED.CONF end ***********************************************************


**********************NAMED.CONF.OPTIONS  start*****************************************************
options {
        directory "/var/cache/bind";

        auth-nxdomain no;    # conform to RFC1035
        listen-on-v6 { any; };

        allow-recursion { localnets; };

};

**********************NAMED.CONF.OPTIONS  end *****************************************************



*****************************NAMED.CONF.LOCAL start *************************************************
//
// Do any local configuration here
//

// Consider adding the 1918 zones here, if they are not used in your
// organization
//include "/etc/bind/zones.rfc1918";

zone "cd-express.com" {
        type master;
        file "/etc/bind/cd-express.db";
};

zone "15.15.15.in-addr.arpa" {
        type master;
        file "/etc/bind/15.15.15.rev";
};
*****************************NAMED.CONF.LOCAL end *************************************************

***************************** CD-EXPRESS.DB start *************************************************
; BIND data file for cd-express.db
; /var/named/cd-express.db
;
$TTL 1h
@ SOA ns1.cd-express.com. root.cd-express.com. (
  2007110805; Serial (date + two digit serial)
  10800 ; Refresh (3 hours)
  3600 ; Retry (1 hour)
  86400 ; Expire (1 day)
  60 ) ; Default TTL 1 min
  NS ns1.cd-express.com.
  MX mail.cd-express.com.
  A 208.127.75.221

        ns1     A       208.127.75.221
        mail    A       208.127.75.221
        www     A       208.127.75.221
***************************** CD-EXPRESS.DB end *************************************************


***************************** 15.15.15.REV start *************************************************
: BIND reverse data file for 15.15.15.0
: /etc/bind/15.15.15.db
:
@ IN SOA cd-express.com. root.cd-express.com. (
  2007110801; date creatd
  10800; refresh (3 hours)
  3600 ; retry (1 hour)
  86400; expire (1 day)
  60) ; TTL (1 minute)
  IN NS ns1.cd-express.com.
  10 IN PTR www.cd-express.com.
  20 IN PTR dns.cd-express.com.
  30 IN PTR mail.mycompany.com.

***************************** 15.15.15.REV end *************************************************

*QUESTION:
Is the line comment for a bind configuration file, including the includes, a "//" or ";" or ":"??  I've seen the semicolons and colons in some bind configurations as well

I'll be happy to get ANY HELP.  Thanks a lot!
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