DNS Server Configuration

For my own personal interest I try to configure dns servers for one of our
inactive domain (farstars.net).

I use 2 dns servers (ns1 and ns2) one located in our office and the other
located in my own house. Both machines are connected via adsl line.

I cannot get my master server to work properly as I always get "Unknown
Host" reply when I ping one of my machines.

When I dig I get the following answer:

; <<>> DiG 9.3.2 <<>> farstars.net
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 19247
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;farstars.net. IN A

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
farstars.net. 60 IN SOA farstars.net.
dnsadmin.farstars.net.\ 2006101201 3600 600 86400 300

;; Query time: 51 msec
;; SERVER: 192.168.1.1#53(192.168.1.1)
;; WHEN: Fri Oct 20 14:52:15 2006
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 75

This information seems ok but I do not understand how I get the SOA record
only.

Here is a copy of my zone file:

@ IN SOA farstars.net. dnsadmin.farstars.net. (
2006101201 ; Serial number
3600 ; Refresh after 1 hour
600 ; Retry after 10 minutes
86400 ; Expire after 1 day
300 ) ; Minimum TTL of 5 minutes

NS ns1.farstars.net.
NS ns2.farstars.net.
MX 10 mail.farstars.net.
TXT "Farstar Networking Inc."

ns1 IN A 72.1.198.18
ns2 IN A 72.1.198.145
www IN A 72.1.198.18
ftp IN A 72.1.198.18
mail IN A 72.1.198.18

Any body has an idea of what I am doing wrong?

Thanks.

Gilles

I just checked from home it itis working fine now.

so forget about it.

Thanks anyway :-)

GB wrote:
>
> For my own personal interest I try to configure dns servers for one of our
> inactive domain (farstars.net).
>
> I use 2 dns servers (ns1 and ns2) one located in our office and the other
> located in my own house. Both machines are connected via adsl line.
>
> I cannot get my master server to work properly as I always get "Unknown
> Host" reply when I ping one of my machines.
>
> When I dig I get the following answer:
>
> ; <<>> DiG 9.3.2 <<>> farstars.net
> ;; global options: printcmd
> ;; Got answer:
> ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 19247
> ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0
>
> ;; QUESTION SECTION:
> ;farstars.net. IN A
>
> ;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
> farstars.net. 60 IN SOA farstars.net.
> dnsadmin.farstars.net.\ 2006101201 3600 600 86400 300
>
> ;; Query time: 51 msec
> ;; SERVER: 192.168.1.1#53(192.168.1.1)
> ;; WHEN: Fri Oct 20 14:52:15 2006
> ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 75
>
> This information seems ok but I do not understand how I get the SOA record
> only.
>
> Here is a copy of my zone file:
>
> @ IN SOA farstars.net. dnsadmin.farstars.net. (
> 2006101201 ; Serial number
> 3600 ; Refresh after 1 hour
> 600 ; Retry after 10 minutes
> 86400 ; Expire after 1 day
> 300 ) ; Minimum TTL of 5 minutes
>
> NS ns1.farstars.net.
> NS ns2.farstars.net.
> MX 10 mail.farstars.net.
> TXT "Farstar Networking Inc."
>
> ns1 IN A 72.1.198.18
> ns2 IN A 72.1.198.145
> www IN A 72.1.198.18
> ftp IN A 72.1.198.18
> mail IN A 72.1.198.18
>
> Any body has an idea of what I am doing wrong?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Gilles