RE: technical help

hello mark

help ping 64.110.88.3 and 64.110.88.4 to let me know if the dns IP is reacheable. cos I can not even ping the IP address of the linux box from my network but it can ping itself. moreso, it can not ping another machine and other machine too can not ping it, so what could be the problem cos I just resinstalled the linux box now?

Mark Tinka <mtinka at africaonline.co.ug> wrote:

The /etc/resolv.conf is locally signifcant, but useful if you need to make name lookups on the DNS server itself.

First thing you need to do is start BIND. Anyone on the list who knows the location of BIND 9's binary on Redhat? I only know SuSE. Zeim, you spoke of a "service" command under Redhat once. Is there one to start BIND?

Regards,

Mark Tinka - CCNA
Network Engineer, Africa Online Uganda

-----Original Message-----
From: Paul [mailto:pademmy at yahoo.com]
Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2003 1:36 PM
To: mtinka at africaonline.co.ug
Subject: RE: technical help

hi mark,

when I type ps -ax | grep bind is reply 2327 pts/4   s 0:00 grep bind

what of if I change my named.conf to the below stuff?

zone "." {
        type hint;
        file "named.root";

};

zone "localhost" {
        type master;
        file "localhost";
};

zone "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa" {
        type master;
        file "127.0.0";
};

will it be of help?

the ip of the machine to be configured as DNS srver is 64.110.88.4 and the gateway is 64.110.88.1 and the dns IP is 64.110.88.4 which is a /28 out of my /25 block of IP address. butwhen I type the host name the system during installation took the pry dns to be 64.110.88.1 which is to be the gateway, hope this won't cause me any problem during configuration?

Do I need to do any changes in the resovle.conf file?

thanks.

Mark Tinka <mtinka at africaonline.co.ug> wrote:

Paul, you then have BIND 9 installed.

I personally have very little experience with BIND 9. All my BIND work is with BIND 8. The last time I fiddled with BIND 9, it only wanted to run as root, and not the user named; but that's a long time ago.

You need to find a way to start the BIND process. But first, see if it is running. I am not sure what process name it runs under on Redhat, but you could try one of these commands:

ps -ax | grep named, or ps -ax | grep bind

If nothing comes up, try to start it. Locate the BIND binary using the whereis command. You may be looking for a file called named, or bind, or something like that. You could also load the manpages to read about the file distribution of BIND 9 on your system. Once you locate the file, and start the BIND process, you should be able to start resolving Internet addresses, as long as your /etc/named.conf file is intact.

Regards,

Mark Tinka - CCNA
Network Engineer, Africa Online Uganda

-----Original Message-----
From: Paul [mailto:pademmy at yahoo.com]
Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2003 12:25 PM
To: mtinka at africaonline.co.ug
Subject: RE: technical help

hello mark,

am sorry is a redhat linux ver. 7.2

when I used rpm -q bind8 it reply not installed, when I used rpm -q bind9 it repl not installed, but when I used rpm -q bind it reply BIND-9.1.3-4

And when I checked the directory cd /etc/init.d I see ypbind and open it to see the content it reads

ypbind: starting the ypbind daemon

tbis is a daemon which runs on NIS/YP client and binds them to a NIS domain.

thanks

Mark Tinka <mtinka at africaonline.co.ug> wrote:

Use the RPM command to check whether you have bind installed:

rpm -q bind8, or rpm -q bind9, or just rpm -q bind

You can also check /etc/init.d/ to see if you have the BIND name server binary/daemon there.

When you say Linux 7.2, is that Redhat, or SuSE, or Mandrake e.t.c You may want to be more specific.

Regards,

Mark Tinka - CCNA
Network Engineer, Africa Online Uganda

-----Original Message-----
From: Paul [mailto:pademmy at yahoo.com]
Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2003 11:37 AM
To: mtinka at africaonline.co.ug
Subject: RE: technical help

Hi mark,

Know I don't have firewall running of my system. and it is a linux system with version 7.2

I thought BIND comes automatically with linux 7.2 when you install linux or do I need to install BIND separately after I might have installed linux?

how can I know or confirm if BIND is running in the background of linux 7.2

this is copy my named.conf file

## named.conf configuration for bind

#

# Generated automatically for bindconf, alchmist et al.

control {

         inet 127.0.0.1 allow { localhost; } keys { rndckey; };

};

include "/etc/rndc.key";

options {

           directory "/var/named/";

};

zone "." {

            type hint

            file "named.ca";

};

zone "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa" {

         type master

         file "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa.zone";

};

zone "localhost" {

         type master;

         file "localhost.zone";

};

And what of my resolve.conf how is it suppose to look like?

thanks so much for your assistant, I appreciate.

-Ajayi

Mark Tinka <mtinka at africaonline.co.ug> wrote:

Hi Paul.

Do you have a firewall running on your system? What system is this? What DNS software are you running [BIND I hope], and what version. Is BIND running in the background? Do you have a firewall, I ask again?

Please paste a copy of your named.conf file. First, we get the DNS working, then look at Apache.

Regards,

Mark Tinka - CCNA
Network Engineer, Africa Online Uganda

-----Original Message-----
From: Paul [mailto:pademmy at yahoo.com]
Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2003 10:20 AM
To: mtinka at africaonline.co.ug; 'Fisayo Adeleke'; afnog at afnog.org
Subject: technical help

hello ,

Pls I need help on troublshooting my Apache and DNS setup and Config. I went to http://ws.afnog.org site to get some hint but the links there are not working properly.

pls can anyone help me with how to complete the setup and config of the apache becos I have configured the apache on my network, I can access it within my network but it not be reach outside my network.

and likewise my DNS is still not resolving yet I can not browse the internet with it.

pls I need tech. help on how to go about it

thanks for your techical assistant.

-Ajayi

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