Setting up a DNS name server for a mass virtual host with Bind9

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Published on 2010-04-26T09:23:38Z Indexed on 2010/04/26 9:34 UTC
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I am trying to set up a chrooted DNS name server in a local LAN like this everyone connected in the LAN can have access to the mass virtual hosts defined for a development ambience without having to edit manually their local /etc/hosts one by one. The mass virtual host is named example.user.dev (VirtualDocumentRoot /home/user/example ) and example.test (DocumentRoot /var/www/example).

I set up everything and the /var/log/syslog doesn't show any error, but when checking the DNS with:

host -v example.test

Doesn't find the host. Also using the dig command I don't receive answer.

dig -x example.test

; <<>> DiG 9.5.1-P3 <<>> -x imprimere
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 47844
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;imprimere.in-addr.arpa. IN PTR

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
in-addr.arpa. 600 IN SOA a.root-servers.net. dns-ops.arin.net. 2010042604 1800 900 691200 10800

;; Query time: 108 msec
;; SERVER: 80.58.0.33#53(80.58.0.33)
;; WHEN: Mon Apr 26 11:15:53 2010
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 107

My configuration is the following:

/etc/bind/named.conf.local

zone "example.test" {

   type master;  
   allow-query { any; };
   file "/etc/bind/zones/master_example.test";
   notify yes;

};

zone "1.168.192.in-addr.arpa" {

   type master;
   allow-query { any; };
   file "/etc/bind/zones/master_1.168.192.in-addr.arpa";
   notify yes;

};

/etc/bind/named.conf.options

Note: We have an static IP address so I forward the querys to DNS server to said IP address.

options{

    directory "/var/cache/bind";  
    forwarders { 80.34.100.160; };
    auth-nxdomain no;  
    listen-on-v6 { any; };

};

/etc/bind/zones/master_example.test

$ORIGIN example.test.
$TTL 86400
@ IN SOA example.test. root.example.test. (
                   201004227       ; serial  
                   28800              ; refresh  
                   14400              ; retry  
                   3600000              ; expire  
                   86400 )            ; min  
;

TXT "example.test, DNS service"
@ IN NS example.test.
localhost A 127.0.0.1
example.test. A 192.168.1.52
example A 192.168.1.52
www CNAME example.test.

/etc/hosts

127.0.0.1 localhost example
192.168.1.52 localhost example example.test

/etc/resolv.conf

Note: For Bind I just added the 3 last lines.

nameserver 80.58.0.33
nameserver 80.58.61.250
nameserver 80.58.61.254

search example.test
search example
nameserver 192.168.1.52

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