Mistake #1: looking up something using a shortname. Apparently "rac2.local" is not in your stub resolver's local search list. Always use fully-qualified domain names (FQDNs) for client lookups, and educate your users to do so also. Using FQDNs is the most efficient, least ambiguous, and easiest-to-troubleshoot form of resource lookup from DNS. Mistake #2: trying to troubleshoot DNS using nslookup. With its default output format, nslookup is hiding all of its disgusting suffixing behavior from your eyes, thus leaving you in the dark as to what the problem is. Consider using a real DNS troubleshooting tool like "dig", which doesn't do suffixing garbage (it looks up exactly what you ask it to look up, nothing more, nothing less), and with its default output format, shows you the full DNS response from the nameserver Mistake #3: the "connection timed out" error from nslookup implies that one of the names it tried to look up (either "rac2-scan" appended with some arbitrary suffix from your searchlist, or "rac2-scan" as a *root* name), ended up in a part of the namespace that your DNS infrastructure can't resolve at all. Most likely you have no direct connectivity to the Internet, yet you have neglected to set up your own internal root zone. So, your DNS infrastructure tries to go out and talk to the Internet root nameservers, and beats its head bloody on your firewalls and/or your routers and/or whatever, futilely trying to get response. Hence the timeout. I'm surprised your firewall guys haven't complained to you yet about all of the log noise you've been generating. Mistake #4: from the logs below, it appears that you have no A or AAAA records associated with the targets of certain NS records -- with a first label of "apple" -- in each of several zones. Either change the targets of those NS records to a fully-qualified name (instead of just "apple"), or supply the A/AAAA records of apple.<zone> in each of those zone files so that they are internally complete. This appears to be another symptom of shortname-itis. Please learn the contexts in which shortnames work, and the contexts in which they do not, or where extra work is required to make them work. The safest thing is to always use FQDNs, as suggested above.

- Kevin

On 4/1/2011 9:09 AM, Tony MacDoodle wrote:
I think it's something with one of the zone files, here is what I get....

nslookup rac-scan
Server:         xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
Address:        xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx#53

Name:   rac-scan.rac.local
Address: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
Name:   rac-scan.rac.local
Address: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
Name:   rac-scan.rac.local
Address: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

root:jabba:~# nslookup rac2-scan
;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached



/var/adm/messages
Apr 1 09:05:16 apple named[1695]: [ID 873579 daemon.info <http://daemon.info>] shutting down Apr 1 09:05:16 apple named[1695]: [ID 873579 daemon.notice] stopping command channel on 127.0.0.1#953 Apr 1 09:05:16 apple named[1695]: [ID 873579 daemon.info <http://daemon.info>] no longer listening on 127.0.0.1#53 Apr 1 09:05:16 apple named[1695]: [ID 873579 daemon.info <http://daemon.info>] no longer listening on xxx.xxx.xxx.24#53
Apr  1 09:05:16 apple named[1695]: [ID 873579 daemon.notice] exiting
Apr 1 09:05:16 apple named[1715]: [ID 873579 daemon.notice] starting BIND 9.6.1-P3 -4 Apr 1 09:05:16 apple named[1715]: [ID 873579 daemon.notice] built with --prefix=/usr --with-libtool --bindir=/usr/sbin --sbindir=/usr/sbin --libdir=/usr/lib/dns --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var --with-openssl=/usr/sfw --enable-threads=yes --enable-devpoll=yes --enable-fixed-rrset --disable-openssl-version-check -DNS_RUN_PID_DIR=0 Apr 1 09:05:16 apple named[1715]: [ID 873579 daemon.info <http://daemon.info>] found 8 CPUs, using 8 worker threads Apr 1 09:05:16 apple named[1715]: [ID 873579 daemon.info <http://daemon.info>] using up to 4096 sockets Apr 1 09:05:16 apple named[1715]: [ID 873579 daemon.info <http://daemon.info>] loading configuration from '/etc/named.conf' Apr 1 09:05:16 apple named[1715]: [ID 873579 daemon.info <http://daemon.info>] using default UDP/IPv4 port range: [1024, 65535] Apr 1 09:05:16 apple named[1715]: [ID 873579 daemon.info <http://daemon.info>] using default UDP/IPv6 port range: [1024, 65535] Apr 1 09:05:17 apple named[1715]: [ID 873579 daemon.info <http://daemon.info>] no IPv6 interfaces found Apr 1 09:05:17 apple named[1715]: [ID 873579 daemon.info <http://daemon.info>] listening on IPv4 interface lo0, 127.0.0.1#53 Apr 1 09:05:17 apple named[1715]: [ID 873579 daemon.info <http://daemon.info>] listening on IPv4 interface vnet0:1, xxx.xxx.xxx.24#53 Apr 1 09:05:17 apple named[1715]: [ID 873579 daemon.info <http://daemon.info>] automatic empty zone: 0.IN-ADDR.ARPA Apr 1 09:05:17 apple named[1715]: [ID 873579 daemon.info <http://daemon.info>] automatic empty zone: 127.IN-ADDR.ARPA Apr 1 09:05:17 apple named[1715]: [ID 873579 daemon.info <http://daemon.info>] automatic empty zone: 254.169.IN-ADDR.ARPA Apr 1 09:05:17 apple named[1715]: [ID 873579 daemon.info <http://daemon.info>] automatic empty zone: 2.0.192.IN-ADDR.ARPA Apr 1 09:05:17 apple named[1715]: [ID 873579 daemon.info <http://daemon.info>] automatic empty zone: 255.255.255.255.IN-ADDR.ARPA Apr 1 09:05:17 apple named[1715]: [ID 873579 daemon.info <http://daemon.info>] automatic empty zone: 0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.IP6.ARPA Apr 1 09:05:17 apple named[1715]: [ID 873579 daemon.info <http://daemon.info>] automatic empty zone: 1.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.IP6.ARPA Apr 1 09:05:17 apple named[1715]: [ID 873579 daemon.info <http://daemon.info>] automatic empty zone: D.F.IP6.ARPA Apr 1 09:05:17 apple named[1715]: [ID 873579 daemon.info <http://daemon.info>] automatic empty zone: 8.E.F.IP6.ARPA Apr 1 09:05:17 apple named[1715]: [ID 873579 daemon.info <http://daemon.info>] automatic empty zone: 9.E.F.IP6.ARPA Apr 1 09:05:17 apple named[1715]: [ID 873579 daemon.info <http://daemon.info>] automatic empty zone: A.E.F.IP6.ARPA Apr 1 09:05:17 apple named[1715]: [ID 873579 daemon.info <http://daemon.info>] automatic empty zone: B.E.F.IP6.ARPA Apr 1 09:05:17 apple named[1715]: [ID 873579 daemon.notice] command channel listening on 127.0.0.1#953 Apr 1 09:05:17 apple named[1715]: [ID 873579 daemon.error] zone xxx.10.10.in-addr.arpa/IN: NS 'apple.xxx.10.10.in-addr.arpa' has no address records (A or AAAA) Apr 1 09:05:17 apple named[1715]: [ID 873579 daemon.info <http://daemon.info>] zone xxx.10.10.in-addr.arpa/IN: loaded serial 1 Apr 1 09:05:17 apple named[1715]: [ID 873579 daemon.error] zone xxx.10.10.in-addr.arpa/IN: NS 'apple.xxx.10.10.in-addr.arpa' has no address records (A or AAAA) Apr 1 09:05:17 apple named[1715]: [ID 873579 daemon.info <http://daemon.info>] zone xxx.10.10.in-addr.arpa/IN: loaded serial 1 Apr 1 09:05:17 apple named[1715]: [ID 873579 daemon.error] zone 0.0.127.in-addr.arpa/IN: NS 'apple.0.0.127.in-addr.arpa' has no address records (A or AAAA) Apr 1 09:05:17 apple named[1715]: [ID 873579 daemon.info <http://daemon.info>] zone 0.0.127.in-addr.arpa/IN: loaded serial 1 Apr 1 09:05:17 apple named[1715]: [ID 873579 daemon.error] zone rac.local/IN: NS 'apple.rac.local' has no address records (A or AAAA) Apr 1 09:05:17 apple named[1715]: [ID 873579 daemon.info <http://daemon.info>] zone rac.local/IN: loaded serial 2 Apr 1 09:05:17 apple named[1715]: [ID 873579 daemon.error] zone rac2.local/IN: NS 'apple.rac2.local' has no address records (A or AAAA) Apr 1 09:05:17 apple named[1715]: [ID 873579 daemon.info <http://daemon.info>] zone rac2.local/IN: loaded serial 3
Apr  1 09:05:17 apple named[1715]: [ID 873579 daemon.notice] running


Thanks
On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 2:10 AM, Torinthiel <torinth...@data.pl <mailto:torinth...@data.pl>> wrote:

    On 04/01/11 03:47, Tony MacDoodle wrote:
    > Hello,
    >
    > I am trying to configure 2 different domains on one host that
    only has
    > one physical interface plummed.
    >
    > I think I have an errorthat I list the hostname of the interface
    in both
    > zone files as below and this might be why I can't resolve
    properly. Do
    > you see any mistakes in the files below?
    > The only active interface is 192.168.5.5

    and you can't resolve properly from where? From localhost? That's
    probably because you've configured BIND to only listen on external
    address, not the local one. In this config (listen-on {
    192.168.5.5; };)
    it won't accept local queries, as these come to 127.0.0.1.

    But from other box command
    dig rac-scan.rac.local @192.168.5.5 <http://192.168.5.5> should work.

    Are there any relevant messages in logs? What are the error
    messages/results when you try to resolve? How you test if
    resolution works?

    Having bind run multiple zones is absolutely normal, and there are no
    reasons to require more than one IP address with that.
    Torinthiel


    >
    > root:/var/named# cat named.conf
    > options {
    >         listen-on-v6 { none; };
    >         listen-on { 192.168.5.5; };
    >         directory "/var/named";
    > };
    > zone "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa" {
    > type master;
    > file "db.127.0.0";
    > };
    > zone "rac.local" {
    > type master;
    > file "db.rac";
    > };
    > zone "rac2.local" {
    > type master;
    > file "db.rac2";
    > };
    > zone "10.168.192.in-addr.arpa" {
    > type master;
    > file "db.192.168.10";
    > };
    > zone "20.168.192.in-addr.arpa" {
    > type master;
    > file "db.192.168.20";
    > };
    >
    > root:jedi:/var/named# cat db.rac
    > $TTL 86400
    > @       SOA     jedi root ( 2 10800 3600 604800 600 )
    >         NS      jedi
    > localhost               A       127.0.0.1
    > rac-scan                A       xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
    >                         A       xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
    >                         A       xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
    >                         MX      10 rac-scan
    >
    > root:jedi:/var/named# cat db.rac2
    > $TTL 86400
    > @       SOA     jedi root ( 3 10800 3600 604800 600 )
    >         NS      jedi
    > localhost               A       127.0.0.1
    > rac2-scan               A       xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
    >                         A       xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
    >                         A       xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
    >                         MX      10 rac2-scan


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