Hi
I recently bought Virtualmin Pro. The first time we loaded it we made a mess of it and nothing seemed to work, we tried all sorts of things and got some advice from here but we were getting all sorts of errors.
We did a clean install again and this time it installed bueatifully and have not had an error message, we are very pleased with the installation.
I have got everything setup but my DNS Server does not seem to be working. I have created a master Virtual Server and edited the records in Bind DNS and as far as I can tell it is all set up correctly.
I have had my registrar create the following host records ns1.cybernamixqld.com - 60.234.78.35 ns2.cybernamixqld.com - 60.234.78.36
I have setup the eth0 as IP Address 60.234.78.35 and eth0 (virtual) as 60.234.78.36.
I can access the server via both IP Addresses.
The server is called sv1.cybernamixqld.com in Hostname and DNS Client - Network Configuration
This is the records file from cybernamixqld.com
$ttl 38400 cybernamixqld.com. IN SOA ns1.cybernamixqld.com greg.cybernamix.com. ( 1194477877 10800 3600 604800 38400 ) cybernamixqld.com. IN NS ns1.cybernamixqld.com. cybernamixqld.com. IN A 60.234.78.35 www.cybernamixqld.com. IN A 60.234.78.35 ftp.cybernamixqld.com. IN A 60.234.78.35 m.cybernamixqld.com. IN A 60.234.78.35 mail.cybernamixqld.com. IN A 60.234.78.35 cybernamixqld.com. IN MX 5 mail.cybernamixqld.com. cybernamixqld.com. IN TXT "v=spf1 a mx a:cybernamixqld.com ip4:60.234.78.35 ?all" ns1.cybernamixqld.com. IN A 60.234.78.35 ns2.cybernamixqld.com. IN A 60.234.78.36 cybernamixqld.com. IN NS ns2.cybernamixqld.com.
I know it is propably something I have missed etc and I appreciatte anyones time who can assist me as I am getting frustrated.
Thanks again Greg
Nice support request, Greg. Everything I need to know to be able to help is right there. (It's rare enough to be worth commenting on.) ;-)
OK, so, troubleshooting DNS goes like this:
Is the registrar serving the right name servers?
$ whois cybernamixqld.com
Domain servers in listed order:
NS1.CYBERNAMIXQLD.COM 60.234.78.35
NS2.CYBERNAMIXQLD.COM 60.234.78.36
Yes, awesome. Are the name servers serving the right data:
$ host cybernamixqld.com 60.234.78.35
;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached
Hmmm...no. So there's a problem.
Check to see if BIND is running:
ps auxc | grep named
Got a firewall blocking port 53? If it's behind a NATting firewall, is that port being forwarded?
Does it work locally? (i.e. if you run the host command on the system itself.)
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Thanks
Yes BIND is definettly running.
I ran the command locally and got
sv1:~# host cybernamixqld.com 60.234.78.35
Using domain server:
Name: 60.234.78.35
Address: 60.234.78.35#53
Aliases:
cybernamixqld.com has address 60.234.78.35
cybernamixqld.com mail is handled by 5 mail.cybernamixqld.com.
So it looks like a firewall problem.
I will talk to the firewall administrator and see if he can fix it
Thanks again
Greg
Hi
We are having trouble getting the firewall to not block it.
We have put in the following but it still seems blocked.
ACCEPT net dmz:60.234.78.35 tcp 53
Can you tell me what we should set?
Cheers
Greg
Don't worry, we have fixed it.
Thanks again for your great support.