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[webdirect]

Hi all!

You've probably seen this a million and one times before but I've got nameserver problems. They ain't set up properly somewhere.

http://www.dnsreport.com/tools/dnsre...in=wirehost.ws

Would you be kind some instructions on how to correct this ?

THANK YOU!
Liam

[crucialx]

Looks like bind is not running properly on those IPs... you may want to check its started/running correctly.

[sailorFred]

You appear to be running CPanel and WHM on that machine, so you ought to be able to set up your DNS fairly easily.

[webdirect]

Hi there,

I've checked bind is up and running but it's still not working.

http://www.dnsreport.com/tools/dnsre...s1.wirehost.ws

Any help ?

Thanks
Liam

[firestarter]

With the domain name registarar ( eNom), have you added those name servers as your personal name servers ! You need to add those name servers there in the control panel of the wirehost.ws.

[webdirect]

I have done this.

I have noticed that when I update server software in the middle of the update text I see:
"Searching ports for bind9............................found bind9 in /usr/ports/dns/bind9....Done
---> Session started at: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 12:40:44 -0400
---> Listing the results (+:done / -:ignored / *kipped / !:failed)
! dns/bind9 (bind9-9.3.1) (Bad file descriptor)
---> Packages processed: 0 done, 0 ignored, 0 skipped and 1 failed
---> Session ended at: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 12:40:46 -0400 (consumed 00:00:01)
Running post install scripts for bind9-base....Done
"

Could this be the problem ?

Also named.conf is blank!?!?!?!?! Surely this isn't right

Thanks

[webdirect]

I have also noticed that:

I logged into the server using WinSCP and went to the etc dir to check the files
/etc/host
/etc/named.conf

And they can't be seen... they don't exist. Also when checking them on SSH using Putty using Pico they just display blank. Is this wrong ?

Thanks
Liam

[sailorFred]

Check /etc/hosts, though, rather than /etc/host.

From your output it sounds like you're running FreeBSD, and it's trying to update bind9 from ports.

Bind9 is part of the contributed userland, so you shouldn't need to install it from the port.

On FreeBSD, the named.conf lives at /var/named/etc/namedb/named.conf AKA /etc/namedb/named.conf

If you want to run bind9, presumably CPanel should know how to do it, but in case that's buggy, check your /etc/rc.conf, and read http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO...ork-bind9.html