DNS master fails

[Jestin John Chacko]

Dear,

For the purpose of testing i had configure two of my servers as DNS master and slave and another server as client.internet is not there as these servers are in the same ip range of 192.16.xx.xx i hope this will work because they are interconnected through vlan.

From the client side i had tried nslookup for the master server

i am getting the output

*** Can't find server name for address 192.16.163.39Server failed
Name Server: server2.my.in
Address: 192.16.163.40

Trying DNS
Name: server1.my.in
Address: 192.16.163.39


my /etc/nsswitch.conf

contains the entry

hosts: dns[NOTFOUND=return] files

and my /etc/resolv.conf file looks like

search my.in
nameserver 192.16.163.39
nameserver 192.16.163.40

why i am getting such an error at the starting of the output pls help in this

[Horia Chirculescu]

Hello,

On each system,

(on server1) ping server1.my.in

(on server2) ping server2.my.in

works?

If not, you should review your TCP/IP settings and

In /etc/nsswitch.conf please consider changing the order as in:

hosts: files dns

You should check your DNS configuration.

If this is "For the purpose of testing", you should try first to clear things in small steps.

You should setup first a master DNS and check to see if the resolver works as expected (run tests on local machine and then on the other one - the one that you will make your slave DNS)

If this basic setup works, maybe you have a problem with your master/slave setup. Check your zone definition. Check if you do use some encription to transfer zones between master and slave. (forget some encription key maybe?)

Horia.

[sahir_1]

Hi,


Please do the following.

1. ping 192.16.163.39

you must get a responce

2. change the entry in /etc/nsswitch.conf

hosts: files[NOTFOUND=return] dns

3. check rpcinfo -a in server

4. check and confirm in Master server that nslookup is working locally.


Post all this information

All The Best

Sahir

[Brian Hackley]

Hi,
Check /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log for errors from named startup and also check your config file with /usr/sbin/named-checkconf. Check your zone files with /usr/sbin/named-checkzone. Some other tips may help from the HP manual:
http://docs.hp.com/en/5969-7067/index.html
Hope that helps.