zones not being added to /etc/bind/named.conf.local

This is a 1&1 virtual server running Debian 7. From a clean, updated image I've installed 3.1.1p1 using the automated setup script, installed Webmin, and applied some standard security: disabled DNS recursion & root SSH login, and applied ISPConfig firewall using default settings except for closing the mysql UDP port.

As the title states, when I add a DNS zone in ISPConfig it does not update the DNS configuration. This started when I initially upgraded from 3.1dev to 3.1 stable before I re-imaged.

I've run the test script and received the following warning: "[WARN] could not determine server's ip address by ifconfig". As this is a VPS, I cannot change the hostname (the test script properly resolved the IP address from the hostname) or the interfaces file. However, it appears that I might be able to do something with /etc/network/interfaces.template if necessary:

Code:

# ifconfig
lo  Link encap:Local Loopback 
  inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
  inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
  UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:65536  Metric:1
  RX packets:58642 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
  TX packets:58642 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
  collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
  RX bytes:5286125 (5.0 MiB)  TX bytes:5286125 (5.0 MiB)

venet0  Link encap:UNSPEC  HWaddr 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00 
  inet addr:127.0.0.1  P-t-P:127.0.0.1  Bcast:0.0.0.0  Mask:255.255.255.255
  UP BROADCAST POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP  MTU:1500  Metric:1
  RX packets:165051 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
  TX packets:150855 errors:0 dropped:2 overruns:0 carrier:0
  collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
  RX bytes:22918636 (21.8 MiB)  TX bytes:14467904 (13.7 MiB)

venet0:0  Link encap:UNSPEC  HWaddr 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00 
  inet addr:***.***.***.***  P-t-P:74.208.167.54  Bcast:***.***.***.***  Mask:255.255.255.255
  UP BROADCAST POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP  MTU:1500  Metric:1

Code:

# cat /etc/network/interfaces
# This configuration file is auto-generated.
# WARNING: Do not edit this file, otherwise your changes will be lost.
# Please edit template /etc/network/interfaces.template instead.


auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
   address 127.0.0.1
   netmask 255.0.0.0
   broadcast 127.255.255.255
   up ip route replace 127.0.0.0/8 dev lo


# Auto generated venet0 interfaces
auto venet0
iface venet0 inet static
   address 127.0.0.1
   netmask 255.255.255.255
   broadcast 0.0.0.0

   up route add default dev venet0

auto venet0:0
iface venet0:0 inet static
   address ***.***.***.***
   netmask 255.255.255.255

Code:

# cat /etc/network/interfaces.template

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
   address 127.0.0.1
   netmask 255.0.0.0
   broadcast 127.255.255.255
   up ip route replace 127.0.0.0/8 dev lo

Any help would be greatly appreciated as this is a production server for my MSP.

 

Check your dns-zones and for *err-files in /etc/bind

 

yes, .err file exists for the zone & it consists of the correct records. zones file consists of several entries similar to this:
zone "10.in-addr.arpa" { type master; file "/etc/bind/db.empty"; };

 

If you see err-files, something is wrong with your zone-file and the zone will not be added to bind.

 

OK, i will look into that. TYVM

 

I downloaded the root servers again, but /etc/resolv.conf keeps going back to 1&1 nameservers after I set it to localhost in Webmin, so I'm assuming that's the problem. I'm attempting resolvconf now and will let you know probably tomorrow. I sincerely hate DNS.

 

Your local resolver has nothing to do with wrong zone-files in your dns.

 

Sorry, I'm confused. Which zone files are you talking about? The only zone files in my DNS are the defaults, and I've re-loaded the root zone as I mentioned previously. Do you mean the ones that I'm trying to create? I've been using the wizard for that the same as I always have, but I just tried adding one manually in ISPConfig and still got the .err file.