Installing and Administering Internet Services

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Conﬁguring and Administering the BIND Name Service

Troubleshooting the BIND Name Server

• Problem 8, Local Domain Not Set

• After conﬁguring the primary server for the ﬁrst time, names in the

local domain can be found, but names in remote domains fail. Check

the following:

• Problem 3, Missing Cache Information

• Problem 5, Network Connectivity

• Problem 7, Incorrect Delegation of Subdomain

• After conﬁguring the local host to use a remote server, all name

lookups fail, or only names in the NIS or NIS+ database or

/etc/hosts are found. The server on the remote host is conﬁgured

properly. Check the following:

• Problem 4, Syntax Errors in /etc/resolv.conf

• Problem 8, Local Domain Not Set

• Problem 9, /etc/nsswitch.conf Not Conﬁgured Correctly

• A remote name lookup now fails that has completed successfully

before. Check the following:

• Problem 5, Network Connectivity

• Problem 2, Syntax Errors

• Problem 4, Syntax Errors in /etc/resolv.conf

• Problem 10, /etc/hosts or NIS or NIS+ Contains Incorrect Data

• A local name lookup now fails that has completed successfully before.

Check the following:

• Problem 2, Syntax Errors

• Problem 6, Secondary Master Unable to Load from Another

Master

• Problem 4, Syntax Errors in /etc/resolv.conf

• Problem 5, Network Connectivity

• Problem 10, /etc/hosts or NIS or NIS+ Contains Incorrect Data

• Names in the local and remote domains are looked up successfully.

However, other servers not in your domain cannot look up names

within your domain. Check the following: