BIND won't respond to queries

Hello,

I'm having some trouble getting my nameserver up and running. The domain I'm using is hadoukenlabs.com, and I registered the nameserver as ns1.hadoukenlabs.com. I followed a tutorial to install and configure bind, but I keep getting SERVFAIL.

I have been making a few changes here and there, but nothing seems to work. Port 53 is forwarded properly but I can't seem to even ping the nameserver from another computer. cmd > ping ns1.hadoukenlabs.com (from a separate windows machine) doesn't even resolve the nameserver ip, although DNS lookup tools find the IP just fine. Any ideas?

ns1.hadoukenlabs.com
LAN IP: 192.168.0.61
WAN IP: 64.251.150.213
OS: Debian 6.0.6

/etc/resolv.conf

Code:

domain hadoukenlabs.com
search hadoukenlabs.com
nameserver 64.251.150.213

/etc/bind/named.conf

Code:

include "/etc/bind/named.conf.options";
include "/etc/bind/named.conf.local";
include "/etc/bind/named.conf.default-zones";
include "/etc/bind/ns1.hadoukenlabs.com.rndc.key";

/etc/bind/named.conf.local

Code:

zone "hadoukenlabs.com" {
        type master;
        file "hadoukenlabs.com.db";
};

zone "0.168.192.in-addr.arpa" {
        type master;
        file "192.168.0.rev";
};

/etc/bind/named.conf.options

Code:

options {
        directory "/var/cache/bind";

        auth-nxdomain no;    # conform to RFC1035
        listen-on port 53 { any; };
        listen-on-v6 port 53 { any; };
        allow-query { any; };
        recursion yes;
};

/etc/bind/named.conf.default-zones

Code:

zone "." {
        type hint;
        file "/etc/bind/db.root";
};

// be authoritative for the localhost forward and reverse zones, and for
// broadcast zones as per RFC 1912

zone "localhost" {
        type master;
        file "/etc/bind/db.local";
};

zone "127.in-addr.arpa" {
        type master;
        file "/etc/bind/db.127";
};

zone "0.in-addr.arpa" {
        type master;
        file "/etc/bind/db.0";
};

zone "255.in-addr.arpa" {
        type master;
        file "/etc/bind/db.255";
};

/etc/bind/hadoukenlabs.com.db

Code:

@       IN      SOA     ns1.hadoukenlabs.com. root.hadoukenlabs.com. (
                     2013030601         ; Serial
                         604800         ; Refresh
                          86400         ; Retry
                        2419200         ; Expire
                         604800 )       ; Default TTL

hadoukenlabs.com        IN      NS      ns1.hadoukenlabs.com.

www     IN      A       64.251.150.213
ns1     IN      A       64.251.150.213

/etc/bind/192.168.0.rev

Code:

@       IN      SOA     hadoukenlabs.com. root.hadoukenlabs.com. (
                     2013030601         ; Serial
                         604800         ; Refresh
                          86400         ; Retry
                        2419200         ; Expire
                         604800 )       ; Default TTL

        IN      NS      ns1.hadoukenlabs.com.

10      IN      PTR     www.hadoukenlabs.com.
20      IN      PTR     ns1.hadoukenlabs.com.

 

*Shameless bump*

Hasn't anyone on this forum used bind before?

 

You've forgotten a dot here:

Code:

hadoukenlabs.com[COLOR="Red"].[/COLOR]        IN      NS      ns1.hadoukenlabs.com.

If this still doesn't help, check your logs (e.g. /var/log/syslog).

 

Thanks!

Thanks so much for pointing me to the syslog file. I had to fix the dot, some permissions in /etc/bind/ and also use absolute paths to the .db and .rev files. Thank-you thank-you thank-you!