Hi, after i installed ISPConfig (ISPConfig Version: 3.1.15) on CentOS 6.10 64bit, and added DNS zones + domain names, i see the server is not responding to remote DNS queries. # rpm -qa|grep bind # service named status # service named start ISPConfig shows fake DNS-server status "Online" on Monitor / Show Services. (can anyone fix it?) System / Server Config / DNS shows: Bind user: named Bind goupd: named Zonefiles dir: /var/named/chroot/var/named/ Named.conf path: /var/named/chroot/etc/named.conf cat /var/named/chroot/etc/named.conf # cat /var/named/chroot/var/named/named.local cat /etc/named.conf see the output here please # locate named.conf When i searched for files matching the domain name i added, it only found .err file in /var/named/chroot/var/named/ Re-adding DNS zone does not help. But for the second domain i added it found number of files. When i edit /etc/named.conf and comment out include "/etc/named.conf.local" and instead use "/var/named/chroot/var/named/named.local", the named starts and shows status: But tools like http://dig.ping.pe still shows that no domain A record is resolved (timeout). Please what to try?
That's the reason for your problem, you probalby missed to add some records, otherwise BIND would not have rejected the zone. The most common mistake is to use a subdomain of the zone itself for the NS records without having added A-Record for these subdomains. And a side note: Why did you install ISPConfig on such an outdated OS? CentOS 6 is really really old and support for it in ISPConfig is about to be removed, so you will not be able to update ISPConfig on your server without updating to centOS 7 first, why did you not used the recent CentOS 7?
It is possible that i messed something, but the software GUI should be made the way i do not miss anything and if i do, the software should warn me. I am giving up, because i spent enough time and i was not given any exact steps what to do, i am not an expert that is told to "check DNS" and i would know how exactly. I did my best to describe the issue so it can be solved, though it is not solved. Exact root cause not found.
I told you what you probably missed to add, you did not post any details of the zone, so how shall we be able to help you? Post screenshots of the dns zone in ISPConfig, the first tab and the records tab. The software can not guess what you want to do, so it can not warn you in such a case.
I have not posted it, because possibly i thought it is some error that can be discovered running commands via command line or maybe i thought it is obvious it is full of private details i do not want to reveal. So thanks for letting me know what exactly i need to do. I spent my time and here are the screenshots: https://i.postimg.cc/sXpnmb7W/dns1.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/vTb0NXtN/dns2.jpg Please PM me if is necessary to talk about private data.
The problem is that you have hidden the relevant details on the screenhshots. The ns1 and ns2 in the data row on the second screenshot, are these subdomains of the domain name of this zone. Or in other wirds, if the zone name is mydomain.net, are theese ns1.mydomain.net and ns2.mydomain.net ?
Does following the testing instructions in this Tutorial help? https://www.howtoforge.com/tutorial/setting-up-your-own-name-service-with-ispconfig/
The zone is of domain1.net, but the ns1, ns2 are of other domain: ns1.otherdomain.com, ns2.otherdomain.com while the otherdomain.com domain registar has these nameservers registered and pointed to ISPConfig server IP. Then in DNS zone of the otherdomain.com (hosted on non ISPConfig server) are DNS A records ns1, ns2 set to ISPConfig server IP. I check these nameservers (ns1,ns2) A record on https://dnschecker.org and it resolve properly to ISPConfig server IP. https://intodns.com/mydomain.net confirms that too, but it says "Missing nameservers reported by your nameservers" and "ERROR: I could not get any A records for www.mydomain.net!" - i think (may be wrong) these erros means that ISPConfig DNS is not responding/working. @Taleman thanks, i checked that, i do not think there is any error in what i input into the ispconfig DNS forms. I tried some of the commands mentioned but have no clue if i used the ips and hostnames in it correctly as it timeouts. Fastet way to solve this bothering issue is to tell me CentOS Linux commands i need to execute, so we get to the core of the problem. Some of the paths in commands mentioned in that tutorial not found/not applicable on my system.
