First time DNS setup

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Lionlord

Hello to everyone who reads this,

I'm having troubles to setup my win2003 server to host an domain name.
hereby I describe the situation:
- We are on a ISP with xdsl(2Mbs u/d) connection.
- We have 4 static IP's we can use for broadcasts
- We asked the ISP to have our domain point to ns.citygame.be as primary NS
and their nameserver for slave.
- I created a AD zone (with th wizard) for citygame.be
- I created a reverse lookup zone for it too.
- The machine is named gamebase.citygame.be
- I added an A record 'ns' which is pointing to gamebase.citygame.be who is
the Host record

when I try NSLOOKUP he resolves fine on the server itself. But when I try to
NSLOOKUP or browse to the www.citygame.be i don't get response.

Is there something wrong with the steps I've taken above? Or did I miss
something.

Maybe my question is stupid, but everyone have to start somewhere :)

Thanks

Jonny
 
Hello to everyone who reads this,

I'm having troubles to setup my win2003 server to host an domain name.
hereby I describe the situation:
- We are on a ISP with xdsl(2Mbs u/d) connection.
- We have 4 static IP's we can use for broadcasts
- We asked the ISP to have our domain point to ns.citygame.be as primary NS
and their nameserver for slave.
- I created a AD zone (with th wizard) for citygame.be
- I created a reverse lookup zone for it too.
- The machine is named gamebase.citygame.be
- I added an A record 'ns' which is pointing to gamebase.citygame.be who is
the Host record

when I try NSLOOKUP he resolves fine on the server itself. But when I try to
NSLOOKUP or browse to the www.citygame.be i don't get response.

Is there something wrong with the steps I've taken above? Or did I miss
something.

Maybe my question is stupid, but everyone have to start somewhere :)

Thanks

Jonny
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Hi!

To be able to browse to www.citygame.be you need to create an A
record:

www A 192.168.1.1

You should create this in the your zone.

When creating the primary zone for citygame.be, you should not need to
create a NS record, it should be created automatically. You should add
the secondary server (your ISP nameserver) and allow zone transfers to
it (happens automatically I believe).

To really try it, use nslookup and enter the command:

server IP-address

where the IP address is another well known name server. This way you
can check that the zone transfers and propagation of your domain
works.

/Peter
 
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Hi!

To be able to browse to www.citygame.be you need to create an A
record:

www A 192.168.1.1

You should create this in the your zone.

When creating the primary zone for citygame.be, you should not need to
create a NS record, it should be created automatically. You should add
the secondary server (your ISP nameserver) and allow zone transfers to
it (happens automatically I believe).

To really try it, use nslookup and enter the command:

server IP-address

where the IP address is another well known name server. This way you
can check that the zone transfers and propagation of your domain
works.

/Peter
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Thanks for the reply Peter,

Indeed, the NS record is added automatically but the ISP have registered the
NS his name as 'ns.citygames.be' and the machines NS record calls
'gamebase.citygames.be'.
Therefore I created an A record 'NS' that refers to the NS record.
The www A Record is added too, so normally this is the only thing to do
regarding the domain referal's URL.

The secondary nameserver is also added and allowed the zone transfers.

And the problem is if I use NSLOOKUP on the server there seems no problem at
all, both IP or name is printed correct information.
But if I try to reach the server from somewhere else on the internet, the
NSLOOKUP [IPNUMBER]only says :
can't find 62.72.116.218: Non-existent domain (which is the fixed IP to
relate to citygame.be)

Once Again Thanks !

Best Regards,
Jonny
 
The non-existant domain is because
the reverse lookup isn't working. Because this
is organized by IP, not name, normally your ISP will
have to create the reverse entries on their servers.

At any rate, except for mail servers, the lack
of a reverse entry is usually not a problem, and it
isn't responsible for your lookup problems.

It isn't exactly clear what is going on from your
posts, so I'd recommend that you run nslookup
and then do a "set d2" to turn on debugging.
Then type www.citygames.be and see how
the servers are resolving. That will show you where
the query is failing.

If you have your ISP listed as secondary, then they
either need to be doing zone transfers from you
on a periodic basis, or you will need to make sure
their nameserver "shadows" all the entries you make in
your own, primary nameserver.

Steve Duff, MCSE
Ergodic Systems, Inc.

Lionlord said:
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Hi!

To be able to browse to www.citygame.be you need to create an A
record:

www A 192.168.1.1

You should create this in the your zone.

When creating the primary zone for citygame.be, you should not need to
create a NS record, it should be created automatically. You should add
the secondary server (your ISP nameserver) and allow zone transfers to
it (happens automatically I believe).

To really try it, use nslookup and enter the command:

server IP-address

where the IP address is another well known name server. This way you
can check that the zone transfers and propagation of your domain
works.

/Peter
Click to expand...

Thanks for the reply Peter,

Indeed, the NS record is added automatically but the ISP have registered the
NS his name as 'ns.citygames.be' and the machines NS record calls
'gamebase.citygames.be'.
Therefore I created an A record 'NS' that refers to the NS record.
The www A Record is added too, so normally this is the only thing to do
regarding the domain referal's URL.

The secondary nameserver is also added and allowed the zone transfers.

And the problem is if I use NSLOOKUP on the server there seems no problem at
all, both IP or name is printed correct information.
But if I try to reach the server from somewhere else on the internet, the
NSLOOKUP [IPNUMBER]only says :
can't find 62.72.116.218: Non-existent domain (which is the fixed IP to
relate to citygame.be)

Once Again Thanks !

Best Regards,
Jonny
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Indeed, the NS record is added automatically but the ISP have registered the
NS his name as 'ns.citygames.be' and the machines NS record calls
'gamebase.citygames.be'.
Therefore I created an A record 'NS' that refers to the NS record.
The www A Record is added too, so normally this is the only thing to do
regarding the domain referal's URL.

The secondary nameserver is also added and allowed the zone transfers.

And the problem is if I use NSLOOKUP on the server there seems no problem at
all, both IP or name is printed correct information.
But if I try to reach the server from somewhere else on the internet, the
NSLOOKUP [IPNUMBER]only says :
can't find 62.72.116.218: Non-existent domain (which is the fixed IP to
relate to citygame.be)

Once Again Thanks !

Best Regards,
Jonny
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Hi Jonny,

As Steve explained in his posting, reverse lookups aren't really that
important. What you need to establish is to see if your domain is
known on the Internet:

If I understand everything correctly, your DNS server is the
ns.citygame.be and has the primary zone?

Your ISP has the secondary zone on their server (ns1.be.colt.net)?

If that's correct, then you must check ns.citygame.be since I could
not connect to it at all. I could also not find it using their server.

It could be that it hasn't been correctly registered, althought when I
checked in RIPE it seems ok.

Start nslookup and type the following commands:

set type=ANY
citygame.be

You should see something like:

citygame.be nameserver = ns.citygame.be
kordab.com nameserver = ns1.be.colt.net
citygame.be
primary name server = citygame.be
responsible mail addr = administrator.citygame.be
serial = 68
refresh = 900 (15 mins)
retry = 600 (10 mins)
expire = 86400 (1 day)
default TTL = 3600 (1 hour)
citygame.be internet address = xx.xx.xx.xx

You should be able to do this on ns1.be.colt.net as well. If not,
noone else will know about your domain.

/Peter
 
Hi Steve and Peter,

This is very much appreciated ! As I can see, there are some weird things
going on @ my ISP...
If I do the set typ=ANY citygame.be,
I see the 2 nameservers of colt (Our ISP) instead of the ns.citygame.be
Although it is registered correctly at dns.be (responsible authority for
Belgium domains)..

I will contact them mondays first thing to see what's the problem.

I'm greatfull You guys beared with me ! I'll let something know if I find
the exact problem.

Thanks,
Jonny
 
citygame.be
primary name server = ns0.be.colt.net
responsible mail addr = hostmaster.be.colt.net
serial = 2003010100
refresh = 28800 (8 hours)
retry = 7200 (2 hours)
expire = 604800 (7 days)
default TTL = 3600 (1 hour)
citygame.be nameserver = ns0.be.colt.net
citygame.be nameserver = ns1.be.colt.net

citygame.be nameserver = ns0.be.colt.net
citygame.be nameserver = ns1.be.colt.net

he is what I show for it.
 
Hello,

As promised:

The solution was rediculous :)
The serial from the ISP was way higher then the one I had from the zone
file.
Therefore it stated that the NS's of the ISP were dominant.

After writing a higher serial then theirs the problem was fixed

Once again, thanks for the help!

Best Regards,
Jonny


Lionlord said:
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Hi!

To be able to browse to www.citygame.be you need to create an A
record:

www A 192.168.1.1

You should create this in the your zone.

When creating the primary zone for citygame.be, you should not need to
create a NS record, it should be created automatically. You should add
the secondary server (your ISP nameserver) and allow zone transfers to
it (happens automatically I believe).

To really try it, use nslookup and enter the command:

server IP-address

where the IP address is another well known name server. This way you
can check that the zone transfers and propagation of your domain
works.

/Peter
Click to expand...

Thanks for the reply Peter,

Indeed, the NS record is added automatically but the ISP have registered the
NS his name as 'ns.citygames.be' and the machines NS record calls
'gamebase.citygames.be'.
Therefore I created an A record 'NS' that refers to the NS record.
The www A Record is added too, so normally this is the only thing to do
regarding the domain referal's URL.

The secondary nameserver is also added and allowed the zone transfers.

And the problem is if I use NSLOOKUP on the server there seems no problem at
all, both IP or name is printed correct information.
But if I try to reach the server from somewhere else on the internet, the
NSLOOKUP [IPNUMBER]only says :
can't find 62.72.116.218: Non-existent domain (which is the fixed IP to
relate to citygame.be)

Once Again Thanks !

Best Regards,
Jonny
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