[dns-operations] A question about changing nameservers

[Warren Kumari]

On May 28, 2013, at 6:32 AM, "Michele Neylon :: Blacknight" <michele at blacknight.com> wrote:

> Obvious question, but did you create the glue records?
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> Subject: [dns-operations] A question about changing nameservers
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> Hello,
> 
> My platform DNSbed.com has cloudwebdns.com as the nameserver domain.
> The DNS of cloudwebdns.com is currently hosted by:
> dns1.registrar-servers.com.
> dns2.registrar-servers.com.
> dns3.registrar-servers.com.
> dns4.registrar-servers.com.
> dns5.registrar-servers.com.
> 
> Today I changed the nameservers to our own nameservers:
> ns1.cloudwebdns.com.
> ns2.cloudwebdns.com.
> ns3.cloudwebdns.com.
> ns4.cloudwebdns.com.
> 
> I have added the zone to named.conf, created zone files, and reloaded
> BIND. But when I added a record by nsupdate, it got the error:
> 
> response to SOA query was unsuccessful
> 
> When I dig to localhost:
> dig cloudwebdns.com soa @localhost
> 
> Got the status ServFail.
> 
> Can you tell me what has happened?

This question might be more appropriate for the bind-users mailing list (https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users) , but…

Run  named-check-zone ( e.g: `named-checkzone cloudwebdns.com cloudwebdns.com`) as see if it complains about some syntax error. Chances are you made some editing mistake.
Otherwise, are you 100% sure that you edited the *correct* named.conf? (Often there end up being multiple copies, one from the system install and one from the user installed bind).

Also, check the log files (possibly /var/log/messages, or somewhere else, depending on how you have configured things), looking for evidence that it is actually trying to read the zone file.

W


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