Article 4456 of vmsnet.networks.tcp-ip.cmu-tek: Path: nntpd.lkg.dec.com!pa.dec.com!decwrl!genmagic!sgigate.sgi.com!swrinde!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!demon!neverlnd.demon.co.uk!pdb From: Peter Burnett Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.tcp-ip.cmu-tek Subject: DOMAIN under CMU-IP Date: 20 Jul 95 22:52:21 Organization: Neverland eXpress, Hastings, UK Lines: 122 Message-ID: References: <0099389D.6DD49680.3@vax6k.nellis.af.mil> X-NNTP-Posting-Host: neverlnd.demon.co.uk X-FTN-To: strickland@vax6k.nellis.af.mil Hello Chuck! Tuesday July 18 1995, strickland@vax6k.nellis.af.mil writes to All: s> Everything works fine except DOMAIN. We have a primary server s> that is very busy and so I am trying to set up my machine as s> a secondary server. s> As far as I can tell, from following the troubleshooting hints s> in the documentation, the problem appears to be that when I start s> the software, I am not making contact with the ROOT Server. I s> can use DOMAIN /lookup commands to query the name server and I can s> TELNET and FTP and have the names properly resolved, but I cannot s> get any responses from my machine. Not quite the same problem as you Chuck but I had not had a whole lot of success with it either. I am running mine as a primary and on evry access to the server, it also creates a ??????_FORKED.DMP file in one of the VMS system directories. After a while, my system disk get pretty full of these and I have to shut the server down and restart it after deleting all these .dmp files at about 2000 blocks a time. s> I think that the problem may be in one of my initialization files, s> perhaps I do not have a root server properly identified or something s> like that. I have tried several versions of INITIAL.DAT referencing s> several root servers and I will include copy of present one below. I have two 3100's running CMU with a PC running KA9Q/PCTCP. I want one of the VAX's to be a primary server for my small network. Nothing clever. [ START.DAT file ] ; primary seuk.com domsdir:seuk.zon primary 194.70.122.in-addr.arpa domsdir:194_70_122.zone_master secondary seuk.com mailgate.seuk.com ; ; SECONDARY athena.compd.com ; FORWARDER athena.compd.com initial domsdir:initial.dat keepcurrent domsdir:keep_current.dat preferredaddress domsdir:network_preference.dat ; [ INITIAL.DAT file ] ; demon.co.uk. in ns ns.demon.co.uk. demon.co.uk. in ns ns2.demon.co.uk ns.demon.co.uk. in a 158.152.1.193 ns2.demon.co.uk. in a 192.68.174.95 ; [ 194_70_122.ZONE_MASTER file ] ; Zone master file for 194.70.122.in-addr.arpa ; @ IN SOA seuk.com. system.vax1.seuk.com. ( 000007 43200 3600 5184000 172800 ) ; IN NS vax1.seuk.com. IN NS mailgate.seuk.com. ; 1 IN PTR vax1.seuk.com. 2 IN PTR vax2.seuk.com. 3 IN PTR mailgate.seuk.com. 4 IN PTR ppsoft.seuk.com. ; [ SEUK.ZON file ] @ IN SOA seuk.com. system.vax1.seuk.com. ( 0000021 ; serial 900 ; refresh 24 hours 600 ; retry 1/2 hour 180000 ; expire 100 hours 86400 ) ; minimum 24 hours ; ; Name Servers ; IN NS vax1.seuk.com. IN NS mailgate.seuk.com. IN MX 10 mailgate.seuk.com. IN MX 15 vax1.seuk.com. ; ; This machine....... ; vax1.seuk.com. IN A 194.70.122.1 vax1.seuk.com. IN MX 5 vax1.seuk.com. vax1.seuk.com. IN MX 10 vax2.seuk.com. vax1.seuk.com. IN MX 15 mailgate.seuk.com. vax1.seuk.com. IN MX 25 neverlnd.demon.co.uk. ; vax2.seuk.com. IN A 194.70.122.2 vax2.seuk.com. IN MX 5 vax2.seuk.com. vax2.seuk.com. IN MX 10 vax1.seuk.com. ; ns.seuk.com. IN CNAME vax1.seuk.com. ns1.seuk.com. IN CNAME vax1.seuk.com. ns2.seuk.com. IN CNAME vax2.seuk.com. ; mailgate.seuk.com. IN A 194.70.122.3 mailgate.seuk.com. IN MX 5 mailgate.seuk.com. mailgate.seuk.com. IN MX 10 vax1.seuk.com. mailgate.seuk.com. IN MX 15 neverlnd.demon.co.uk. ; ppsoft.seuk.com. IN A 194.70.122.4 ppsoft.seuk.com. IN MX 5 mailgate.seuk.com. ppsoft.seuk.com. IN MX 10 vax1.seuk.com. ppsoft.seuk.com. IN MX 15 vax2.seuk.com. ppsoft.seuk.com. IN MX 20 neverlnd.demon.co.uk. ; s> Any help/suggestions would be greatly appreciated.. same on mine...... I have grabed some SunOS documentation on this as well as a book on DNS/BIND and I am no clearer in understanding some parts of it. -- Peter Burnett Internet: pdb@neverlnd.demon.co.uk 10 Parsons Close Fidonet: Peter Burnett 2:441/80 St. Leonards On Sea East Sussex, UK, TN38 9QT Fax: 44-1424-853364