Thursday, May 31, 2012
1:00 PM

Troubleshooting DNS Server

Related to Previous Article: http://amar-linux.blogspot.com/2012/05/configuring-primary-dns-server-on.html

If you are unable to dig properly to your own Test DNS Server (Lab only, not a live DNS Server), here are some tips -


  1. Check whether the named service is running.

  2. [root@ns1 named]# service named status
    version: 9.7.0-P2-RedHat-9.7.0-5.P2.el6
    CPUs found: 1
    worker threads: 1
    number of zones: 17
    debug level: 0
    xfers running: 0
    xfers deferred: 0
    soa queries in progress: 0
    query logging is OFF
    recursive clients: 0/0/1000
    tcp clients: 0/100
    server is up and running
    named (pid 1235) is running...

     

  3. Check whether the FQDN is properly set in /etc/sysconfig/network and /etc/hosts

  4. [root@ns1 named]# cat /etc/sysconfig/network

    NETWORKING=yes
    HOSTNAME=ns1.testdom.inv
    GATEWAY=192.168.1.3

    [root@ns1 named]# cat /etc/hosts

    127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain localhost4 localhost4.localdomain4
    ::1 localhost localhost.localdomain localhost6 localhost6.localdomain6
    192.168.1.13 ns1.testdom.inv ns1


  5. It has to be ensured that the only nameserver IP in /etc/resolv.conf is the IP of the test DNS Server.

  6. [root@ns1 named]# cat /etc/resolv.conf 

    nameserver 192.168.1.13


  7. Check whether the zone files in /var/named have group ownership of named.

  8. [root@ns1 named]# ls -l /var/named/testdom-*
    -rw-r----- 1 root named 325 May 31 11:16 /var/named/testdom-fz
    -rw-r----- 1 root named 318 May 31 11:12 /var/named/testdom-rz

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