I’m hosting DNS for several customers on RH Linux Enterprise Edition. All is working fine except on a single zone, for which this server is authoritative. A customer requested a new zone which uses all of the same information as an operational zone hosted on this same server. I created the new zone file by copying the old to the name of the new and edited the new to input the appropriate text relative to the new zone and updated the serial number. I tailed the message log then performed a reload, No entries were ever displayed concerning the newly created zone file. When performing an nslookup on the server itself, the error message “**server cannot find requestedfile.com: SERVFAIL” is returned.
dig produces:
; <<>> DiG 9.2.2 <<>> requestedfile.com ANY
;; global options: printcmd ;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: SERVFAIL, id: 14152 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0 ;; QUESTION SECTION:
;requestedfile.com. IN ANY
;; Query time: 6 msec ;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#53(localhost) ;; WHEN: Fri Jun 25 15:36:10 2004
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 47
Here is how the zone file looks:
$TTL 3600
@ IN SOA ns1.location.net. hostmaster.location.com. (
2004062502 ; Serial
3H ; Refresh every 3 hours
1H ; Retry every hour
1W ; Expire after a week
1D ) ; Minimum TTL of 1 day
IN NS ns1.location.net.
IN NS ns2.location.net.
IN MX 10 mail.requestedfile.com.
IN A 66.66.156.4
www IN A 66.66.156.4
mail IN A 66.66.156.4
Again, all is functioning properly except for this newly created zone. Any help would be appreciated as I can't see the error.
Thanks in advance,
DEC33162