HELP with simple DNS setup Linux Fedora

(apologies if this is a double post - first one didnt seem to go
through)

Ok, so im no expert, but i've been doing basic linux stuff for 8 years,
simple console etc, that has kept sendmail/apache and named going for
our company for that time..

moving up in the world now, got a new location Dedicated pipe and a new
server...

Have installed Fedora C4 and it seems ok, network is fine.

I have a netgear router/modem taking the static IP from the ISP, and
then behind that i have an allocation of IP's from my ISP which are
being used as Gateway, broadcast and 5 IP's for machines.

The linux box is working great, routing ok, dns resolution ok from ISP.

But we need a name server for the many domains we control, so thus my
setup of named.

So it all SEEMS ok...

[root@bentley etc]# /etc/init.d/named status
number of zones: 4
debug level: 0
xfers running: 0
xfers deferred: 0
soa queries in progress: 0
query logging is OFF
recursive clients: 0/1000
tcp clients: 0/100
server is up and running

(bentley is the name of the NEW server)

however, from another network (our old one)
[root@seat loginname]# nslookup testdomain.com bentley.ourdomain.com.au
*** Can't find server name for address IP.IP.IP.IP: No response from
server
*** Default servers are not available

(seat is the old server, test domain is sub for a real one, as is
ourdomain, and IP)


[root@bentley etc]# nslookup testdomain.com bentley.ourdomain.com.au
Server: bentley.ourdomain.com.au
Address: IP.IP.IP.IP#53

Name: testdomain.com
Address: IP.IP.IP.IP

Thats the output from the new server - seems ok..


So simple question, could it be a reverse DNS issue? Should i contact
the ISP for setup of reverse on that IP (and all the IP's on this
network) - will that fix it?????


Any help appreciated..

On 01/07/06 10:53, james_irvine wrote:
> (apologies if this is a double post - first one didnt seem to go
> through)
>
> Ok, so im no expert, but i've been doing basic linux stuff for 8 years,
> simple console etc, that has kept sendmail/apache and named going for
> our company for that time..
>
> moving up in the world now, got a new location Dedicated pipe and a new
> server...
>
> Have installed Fedora C4 and it seems ok, network is fine.
>
> I have a netgear router/modem taking the static IP from the ISP, and
> then behind that i have an allocation of IP's from my ISP which are
> being used as Gateway, broadcast and 5 IP's for machines.
>
> The linux box is working great, routing ok, dns resolution ok from ISP.
>
> But we need a name server for the many domains we control, so thus my
> setup of named.
>
> So it all SEEMS ok...
>
> [root@bentley etc]# /etc/init.d/named status
> number of zones: 4
> debug level: 0
> xfers running: 0
> xfers deferred: 0
> soa queries in progress: 0
> query logging is OFF
> recursive clients: 0/1000
> tcp clients: 0/100
> server is up and running
>
> (bentley is the name of the NEW server)
>
> however, from another network (our old one)
> [root@seat loginname]# nslookup testdomain.com bentley.ourdomain.com.au
> *** Can't find server name for address IP.IP.IP.IP: No response from
> server
> *** Default servers are not available
>
> (seat is the old server, test domain is sub for a real one, as is
> ourdomain, and IP)
>
>
> [root@bentley etc]# nslookup testdomain.com bentley.ourdomain.com.au
> Server: bentley.ourdomain.com.au
> Address: IP.IP.IP.IP#53
>
> Name: testdomain.com
> Address: IP.IP.IP.IP
>
> Thats the output from the new server - seems ok..
>
>
> So simple question, could it be a reverse DNS issue? Should i contact
> the ISP for setup of reverse on that IP (and all the IP's on this
> network) - will that fix it?????
>
>
> Any help appreciated..
>

Check routing before. Can you ping the server using IP?

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Giovanni
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yep, server is working fine, i have mail and web working for many many
domains, but cant use dns server yet....

for some reason my replies are just not going through here..

YES my route is 100% - all networking is working fine, i have mail
pouring through, and apache running well..

But nothing for DNS

yep, routing is fine - 100%, already got mail coming through on the box
on that domain after changing the IP on the current dns servers... web
is also working ok too..

so routing is not aproblem

i really hope this reply works - its my 15th attempt!

YES - network is 100% - route is great.

Plenty of mail and web traffic coming through....

So its just DNS....