Charles,
If these are resource records from the master file for your zone, they need
the following corrections :
Resource records are supposed to be of the form
"[name] [ttl] address-class resource-type resource-data"
Only the [name] and [ttl] are optional. Which means all entries should
have the address class "IN" in them. Ignore this comment if you
stripped it out while including in the message.
> iisim.ac.in NS serv.iisim.ac.in.
make the name field as @ - which specifies that you're referring to
the ORIGIN (the value of which is already in your conf file). If you
want to be explicit, add a "." to the name - i.e make it "iisim.ac.in."
else the name is assumed to be relative and your origin will be
appended to it (making it iisim.ac.in.iisim.ac.in. !!)
> iisim.ac.in SOA serv.iisim.ac.in.,
> administrator.iisim.ac.in.
Same comment as above - also, you can leave the name fields blank when
successive records refer to the same name. And SOA records are
generally followed by a bunch of numbers (Serial,Refresh etc).. I
assume you have these in your file. (Also field separator between the
origin and contact_name fields is normally a space/Tab not a comma)
> iisim.ac.in MX (10) lin.iisim.ac.in
Same problem with the name field - also the data should be either
simply "lin" or "lin.iisim.ac.in." (Note the trailing ".")
> iisim.ac.in MX (9) mail.iisim.ac.in
Same as above. Plus you don't have a server called "mail" defined below ???
> lin A 203.197.150.51
> localhost A 127.0.0.1
> serv A 203.197.150.52
These are OK - assuming that your zone name is iisim.ac.in
> of course i have a reverse lookup zone
> 150.197.203.in-addr.arpa
Doesn't help much. Reverse lookup for domains that are small (which
don't consume less than 256 IP addresses) like yours is a contentious
issue anyway (asto who will maintain the records)..
> kindly see if this ok.
As I mentioned before - Read the DNS-HOW-TO. You'll find it in the
/usr/doc/HOWTO/ directory of your linux machine (for a RH installation
- I don't know where other distributions put it)
Also, all the above changes will make only _your_ nameserver function
right. For your domain to be resolvable by the outside world, the
parent nameserver (which services your parent domain "ac.in") should have a
record pointing to your nameserver.
Kala
P.S. Help save bandwidth by not quoting the entire message when
replying to a mail. Quote only the relevant parts.
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