Folks, Background:- CentOS 5.6 (Red Hat Nash 5.1.19.6) being setup as a server. I have been trying to get this to work for some time. Despite having read up on the subject using several references (Red Hat 8, Fedora 4, Fedora 5 and DNS and BIND) as no doubt you may have guessed, several on-line resourses I still find I am struggling. Netgear DGN200 - Modem Router: provides Wireless, 4 LAN ports, DNS and DHCP support. Challenge:- Web hosting Mail hosting DHCP (IP assignment) - 192.168.10/24 Domain Name resolution - vk3ty.lan Problem: Unable to assign the correct server host address. I have assigned 192.168.10.150 but, if I ping the hostname, it comes back with 192.168.10.150 which is good. It has the correct local domain name too. At least that part works. If I nslookup the domain name, it comes back with the router address 192.168.10.1 and not the server IP;- [root@vk3tysvr ~]# nslookup vk3ty.lan Server: 192.168.10.1 Address: 192.168.10.1#53 ** server can't find vk3ty.lan: NXDOMAIN the /etc/resolv.conf file (despite my attempts to manually re-assign to point at 192.168.10.150 as the nameserver) still points to 192.168.10.1. ; generated by /sbin/dhclient-script nameserver 192.168.10.1 search vk3ty.lan FIles: /etc/named.conf // BIND configuration file options { directory "/var/named"; pid-file "/var/named/named.pid"; }; zone "vk3ty.lan" in { type master; file "db.vk3ty.lan"; }; zone "10.168.192.in-addr.arpa" in { type master; file "db.192.168.10"; }; zone "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa" in { type master; file "db.127.0.0"; }; zone "." in { type hint; file "db.cache"; }; /var/named/db.127.0.0 $TTL 3h @ IN SOA vk3tysvr.vk3ty.lan. nick.nybblesnbytes.net. ( 20110613001 ; Serial 3h ; Refresh after 3 hours 1h ; Retry after 1 hour 1w ; Expire after 1 week 1h ) ; Negative caching TTL of 1 hour IN NS vk3tysvr.vk3ty.lan. 1 IN PTR localhost. /var/named/db.192.168.10 $TTL 3h ; ; Origin added to names not ending in a dot: 10.168.192.in-addr.arpa ; @ IN SOA vk3tysvr.vk3ty.lan. nick.nybblesnbytes.net. ( 20110613001 ; Serial 3h ; Refresh after 3 hours 1h ; Retry after 1 hour 1w ; Expire after 1 week 1h ) ; Negative caching TTl of 1 hour ; ; Name servers (The name @ is implied) ; IN NS vk3tysvr.vk3ty.lan. ; ; Addresses point to canonical names ; 150 IN PTR vk3tysvr.vk3ty.lan. /var/named/db.cache <Too long to ensert> /var/named/db.vk3ty $TTL 86400 @ SOA vk3tysvr nick.nybblesnbytes.net. ( 20110613001 ; Serial 3h ; Refresh after 3h 1h ; Retry after 1 hour 1w ; Expire after 1 week 1h ) ; Negative caching TTl of 1 hour NS vk3tysvr /var/named/db.vk3ty.lan $TTL 3h ; ; Origin added to names not ending in a dot: vk3ty.lan ; @ IN SOA vk3tysvr nick.nybblesnbytes.net. ( 20110613001 ; Serial 3h ; Refresh after 3 hours 1h ; Retry after 1 hour 1w ; Expire after 1 week 1h ) ; Negative caching TTl of 1 hour ; ; Name servers (The name @ is implied) ; IN NS vk3tysvr ; ; Address for cannonical names ; localhost IN A 127.0.0.1 vk3tysvr IN A 192.168.10.150 ; ; Aliases ; www IN CNAME vk3tysvr ; HTTP server mail IN CNAME vk3tysvr ; Mail server I trust someone might be able to suggest why;- What I might have done wrong with the above files. Why /etc/resolv.conf gets reset Sorry for the long description but it will help you understand the situation and what I want to achieve. Thanks (in advance), Nick
