Topic: Creating a DNS server On SME 7.0 alpha3

[Skydiver]

The format for a SVR RR is this:

_service._protocol        SVR Priority Weight     Port hostname

 In this case i want to establish an entry for our primary SIP server, gateway.mydomain.com, that will listen on UDP port 5060

_sip._udp         SRV     0  0   5060  gateway.mydomain.com

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BIND rpms are installed
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I need to configure the named.conf file

// Default named.conf generated by install of bind-9.2.4-5_EL3
options {
    directory "/var/named";
    dump-file "/var/named/data/cache_dump.db";
    statistics-file "/var/named/data/named_stats.txt";
};
include "/etc/rndc.key";

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Then i guess i need to create a zone file.

Placement of the new resource record is important. Here is a sample zone file:

; zone 'mydomain.com'   last serial 1998071308
$ORIGIN com.
mydomain  86400           IN      SOA     gateway.mydomain.com. postmaster.mydomain.com. (
                                        1998111908 ; Serial
                                        36000 ; Refresh
                                        900 ; Retry
                                        36000 ; Expire
                                        28800 ); Minimum
                IN      NS              gateway.mydomain.com.
                IN      NS              ns3.backupdomain.com.
                IN      MX              1 gateway.mydomain.com.
                IN      A               192.168.0.1

;If we place the SRV record above the next line it fails to load
$ORIGIN fitawi.com.
_sip._udp               SRV  0 0  5060  gateway.mydomain.com.
gateway         IN      A               192.168.0.1
www             IN      CNAME           gateway.mydomain.com.

After reloading the zone file I can verify that the entry is working by using dig.

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The zone file is confusing me anyone have hints on best way to complete this.

Cheers
Greg

[hardijs]

well I was under impression that SME since version 5.6 uses dnscache/tinydns for dns needs...

search this forum for tinydns and there was a tutorial hot to do that on 6.x - so I do believe it may work on SME7a3 (or 4 or whatever) as well

or I am not understanding what you want to achieve...

[cc_skavenger]

Not sure this will work without some manual file manipulation.  I was using a SME 6 box for a long-term temp. DNS server.  It would not answer authoratively for any domain I setup on it.  I ended up building a debian "woody" server just for DNS.  It works great.

Just my experience.

[CharlieBrady]

well I was under impression that SME since version 5.6 uses dnscache/tinydns for dns needs...

It does. Note also that tinydns's data isn't publicly visible, but I'm not sure whether skydiver wanted to publish globally or just to the LAN.

I strongly discourage anyone from publishing DNS globally unless they really know what they are doing. And before using bind, take a look at its security record.

[Skydiver]

Im not sure i need to do this anymore as i have a DNS server (public) redirecting the domain to my public ip address this really should be enough. Any see a reason why i would need to have my own DNS server?