Bind DNS not working :(

[DaMightyWhightyMan]

I have a clean install. It's one box, has 5 IPs assigned to it 1.2.3.130 - 134. I'm trying to setup a domain name.

For this post the domain name is dummy.net. The domain's name servers are ns1.dummy.net and ns2.dummy.net. The registrar already has things setup, I used to use it for name servers on a different box.

There's no firewall running so there shouldn't be only blocked ports.

an nslookup of dummy.net gives me a SERVFAIL

an nslookup of 1.2.3.130 gives me a non-authoritative answear of ns1.dummy.net

Any help would be great.

/etc/bind/named.conf.local

[bjlockie]

Does the service start without errors?

/etc/init.d/namedstart
??

[bjlockie]

Are there any servers in your /etc/resolv.conf file?

Try

[ali3nx]

If scripting bind zonefiles doesn't suit your tastes I've found using djbdns alongside vegadns to be a much more tolerable solution. vegadns is available in the webapps-experimental portage overlay. vegadns being a php based web app can also provide tiered security allowing users to manage their own hosted domains saving a LOT of time required for administration staff to manage service tickets for zonefile updates. There's a perl based replication script available called sql2data which pulls data from vegadns mysql db and populates the tinydns zonefile. safer and less work to configure than using axfrdns. I usually run it crontabbed every 10 minutes on my setup. We have a few hundred domains running with this setup and rarely have to attend to users requirements for any admin side intervention.
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[bunder]

you can get bind to log more information by setting -d 255 in the /etc/conf.d/named file. it will output data to /var/named/named.run

cheers
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