Basic setup in DNS domain

[Barry Margolin]

In article <6khi7v$jfu$1...@ecom1.ecnet.net>,
Ejaz Nadeem Syed <mue...@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu> wrote:
>To Usenet group:
>
>We, students of Western Illinois Univ. have installed LINUX on some of
>our machines and now we are trying to setup DNS (domain name service).
>We are facing some problem in setting up DNS. When we tried nslookup
>command, we got a message can't find server name for address 143.43.24.50:
>No response from server.

You should get the book "DNS & BIND". Also, have you looked in your syslog
file to see the error messages that named produces when loading the files?

>; /var/named/named.hosts local hosts at the brewery
>; origin is xyz.
>;
>@ IN SOA nadeem.xyz. (
> root.nadeem.xyz.
> 16 ; serial
> 86400 ; refresh: one per day
> 3600 ;retry: one hour
> 3600000 ; expire: 42 days
> 604800 ; minimum: 1 week
> )
>IN NS nadeem.xyz.

This line has to be indented.

>;
>; loopback address
>localhost. IN A 127.0.0.1
>; brewery Ethernet
>nadeem IN A 143.43.249.50
>vaihbav IN A 143.43.249.138
>alex IN A 143.43.249.139

>===============================================================
>;
>; /var/named/named.local reverse mapping of 127.0.0
>; origin is 0.0.127.in-addr.arpa.
>;
>@ IN SOA nadeem.xyz. (
> root.nadeem.xyz.
>1 ; serial
>360000 ; refresh: 100 hrs
>3600 ; retry: one hour
>3600000 ; expire: 42 days
>360000 ; minimum: 100 hrs
>)
>IN NS nadeem.xyz.
>1 IN PTR localhost.

The NS line should be indented.

>===============================================================
>;
>; /var/named/named.rev reverse mapping of our IP addresses
>; origin is 43.143.in-addr.arpa.
>;
>@ IN SOA nadeem.xyz. (
> root.nadeem.xyz.
>16 ; serial
>86400 ; refresh: one per day
>3600 ; retry: one hour
>3600000 ; expire: 42 days
>604800 ; minimum: 1 week
> )
>IN NS nadeem.xyz.

This line should be indented.

>;
>; brewery
>50.249 IN PTR nadeem.xyz.
>139.249 IN PTR alex.xyz.
>138.249 IN PTR vaibhav.xyz.

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