Starting Nameserver service?

[novelidea]

Account type: vps

In an effort not to drive Ray and Karl crazy (LOL), I'm determined to figure this out one way or another.

I clicked to "Nameserver Setup" and tried to setup the nameserver service.

From what I've been told by friends who insisted that I needed a vps with cPanel/WHM and how it's so easy and wonderful before I signed up (:lol, I was told that if I wanted personal nameservers like ns1.mydomain.com, I'd:

1. have to make sure I setup the correct primary and secondary nameservers in the Setup process in WHM
--a. found out from steadfastnetworks and godaddy.com how to register the nameservers. That's all set.

2. have to make sure an IP is assigned to each nameserver. (I think I have that all set right)

3. Enable the Nameserver service

They, however, conveniently left out the details. :x

Ok. I think I'm enabling the nameserver and a running tab of what's happening shows up. This is what I get:

Name Server Activated
Ensuring caching-nameserver is installed
Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
Server: CentOS-3.3 - Addons
Server: CentOS-3.3 - Base
Server: CentOS-3.3 - Extras
Server: CentOS-3.3 - Updates
Finding updated packages
Downloading needed headers
No actions to take
Activating nameserver monitoring
Stopping chkservd: [ OK ]
Starting chkservd: [ OK ]
Starting Nameserver

Attempting to restart named

Waiting for named to restart....
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finished.

(named service table with data in it)

And underneath that, I'd see lines of data including these two lines:

/etc/named.conf:19: couldn't install keys for command channel 127.0.0.1#953: not found

/etc/named.conf:19: couldn't add command channel 127.0.0.1#953: not found

Is that supposed to be there? How can I make sure that the nameserver is enabled?

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Also, in the main servlet (psoft.hsphere.CP), my vps dns zone has only this:

Name TTL Class Type Data Built in A records
mydomainname.com 86400 IN A 205.218._edited out_._edited out_

*.mydomainname.com 86400 IN A 205.218._edited out_._edited out_

"mydomainname.com" is my domain name, of course. But that's all that's there. Is there something missing; something that should be in that list of information?

[Ray]

Hello,

You can check on the status at the command line by typing "service named status". You can also check to see if this is working by using the DNS Lookup tool at dnsstuff.com (top one on the right).

As for the error, try running "/scripts/fixndc" on the command line, and let me know if that fixes it.

The DNS zones in H-Sphere are not used by your account, and they can be ignored.

[novelidea]

Ray what would I do without you. :lol:

Ok. Ran it at the prompt and got this at the end:

/etc/named.conf:19: couldn't install keys for command channel 127.0.0.1#953: not found

/etc/named.conf:19: couldn't add command channel 127.0.0.1#953: not found

zone 0.0.127.in-addr.arpa/IN: loaded serial 1997022700

zone localhost/IN: loaded serial 42

running

Done

All fixed

Is that it? Anyway, if I'm simply not doing something right, are there any regular nameservers already set up through steadfast for vps customers?

[Ray]

I ran /scripts/fixnamed and /scripts/fixndc, and then service named status, and this is what resulted:

root@host [/etc]# service named status
number of zones: 4
debug level: 0
xfers running: 0
xfers deferred: 0
soa queries in progress: 0
query logging is OFF
server is up and running


It appears to be working now, but it's hard to say without being able to check a domain on dnsstuff.com. Note, this probably isn't something you've been doing wrong, as we've been having more and more problems with cPanel lately.

[novelidea]

I ran /scripts/fixnamed and /scripts/fixndc, and then service named status, and this is what resulted:

root@host [/etc]# service named status
number of zones: 4
debug level: 0
xfers running: 0
xfers deferred: 0
soa queries in progress: 0
query logging is OFF
server is up and running


It appears to be working now, but it's hard to say without being able to check a domain on dnsstuff.com. Note, this probably isn't something you've been doing wrong, as we've been having more and more problems with cPanel lately.

oh ok. I hope everything works out soon.