Re: [webmin-l] DNS Report - Lame Name Server

[John H. <web...@ew...>]

Vern wrote:

>I keep struggling with this DNS stuff, so could some one please explain to me why I am 
>having this trouble.
>
>I have three DNS servers setup. 
>   One is a Fedora Core 3 box
>   One a Red Hat 9.0 
>   and the last a Debain server
>
>I am having no trouble with the Debian box. 
>
>I WAS however having trouble with the Red Hat box so I decided to move over to a 
>Windows 2003 DNS. The problem I was having with the Red Hat 9.0 box is that the DNS 
>zones were not transfering from the Fedora box. 
>
>Now the zone are transferring to the Windows box no problem. So now the Fedora box is 
>the Master and the Windows and Debian boxes are Slaves.
>
>But now when I do a DNS Report I get this lame name server error for the Master server 
>on DNSreport.com:
>
>http://www.dnsreport.com/tools/dnsreport.ch?domain=comp-wiz.com
>
>ERROR: You have one or more lame nameservers. These are nameservers that do NOT answer 
>authoritatively for your domain. This is bad; for example, these nameservers may never 
>get updated. The following nameservers are lame: 
>64.81.130.196
>
>Anyone have any ideas?
>
>Thanks
>Vern
>  
>
Check permissions on the zone files. On CentOS, I needed to change the 
owner:group in the bind config within Webmin for when new zone files are 
created. It was writing them as root:root... I set it to named:named and 
all was well. After of course going in and chown/chgrp the wrong 
permissioned zone files.

Incidentally, CentOS rocks!!! Updates normally follow Redhat by a day or 
less. Quarterly releases (new ISOs) are normally done within a few days. 
It's a good way to be not quite so 'cutting edge' as Fedora, in case you 
are interested.

John Hinton