It is very common for beginners to make mistakes when editing BIND
configuration files. Be sure to avoid the following issues:
Take care to increment the serial number when editing
a zone file.
If the serial number is not incremented, the master nameserver
has the correct, new information, but the slave nameservers
are never notified of the change and do not attempt to refresh their
data of that zone.
Be careful to use ellipses and semi-colons correctly in the
/etc/named.conf file.
An omitted semi-colon or unclosed ellipse section can cause
named to refuse to start.
Remember to place periods
(.) in zone files after all FQDNs
and omit them on hostnames.
A period at the end of a domain name denotes a fully qualified
domain name. If the period is omitted, then named
appends the name of the zone or the $ORIGIN value
to complete it.
If a firewall is blocking connections from the
named program to other nameservers, edit its
configuration file.
By default, BIND version 9 uses random ports above 1024 to query
other nameservers. Some firewalls, however, expect all nameservers
to communicate using only port 53. To force named
to use port 53, add the following line to the
options statement of
/etc/named.conf:
query-source address * port 53; |
