Hi again, I do really think I do miss something in understanding the basics of bind. Until now only one domain is resolving and this is the domain I use for the nameservers. Can you understand why the other domains do not resolve?

DOMAIN-FOR-NS.com -> works (output of 'dig' is fine)
NEWDOMAIN-ONE.com -> nothing (no output of 'dig')
NEWDOMAIN-TWO.com -> nothing (no output of 'dig')



$ttl 38400
DOMAIN-FOR-NS.com. IN SOA ns1.DOMAIN-FOR-NS.com. dns.DOMAIN-FOR-NS.com. (
1417063796
10800
3600
432000
38400 )
DOMAIN-FOR-NS.com. IN NS ns1.DOMAIN-FOR-NS.com.
DOMAIN-FOR-NS.com. IN NS ns2.DOMAIN-FOR-NS.com.
ns1.DOMAIN-FOR-NS.com. A xxx.xx.xxx.99
ns2.DOMAIN-FOR-NS.com. A xxx.xx.xxx.102

DOMAIN-FOR-NS.com. IN A xxx.xx.xxx.98
www.DOMAIN-FOR-NS.com. IN CNAME DOMAIN-FOR-NS.com.
DOMAIN-FOR-NS.com. IN MX 10 mail.DOMAIN-FOR-NS.com.

NEWDOMAIN-ONE.com. IN A xxx.xx.xxx.104
www.NEWDOMAIN-ONE.com. IN CNAME NEWDOMAIN-ONE.com.
NEWDOMAIN-ONE.com. IN MX 10 mail.NEWDOMAIN-ONE.com.

NEWDOMAIN-TWO.com. IN A xxx.xx.xxx.101
www.NEWDOMAIN-TWO.com. IN CNAME NEWDOMAIN-TWO.com.
NEWDOMAIN-TWO.com. IN MX 10 mail.NEWDOMAIN-TWO.com.



thanks a lot for your patience

NEWDOMAIN-ONE.com and NEWDOMAIN-TWO.com must be in separate zone files.

huh.. wow I knew to be faaaar away from understanding how bind works... but I did really not understand until now that I have to create one one zonefile for each domain.... ;)


before spending more hours on Bind... what is the correct way to add a new domain?

1) add the lines in the zone defaults?
2) create a new master zone?

I have still problems in understanding what the zone defaults are.

thanks for your patience