in bind zone, NS should be using A and record.

The DNS issue prevents your client to get the right router ip.

If your client is a debian box, make sure you use:
send host-name “”
in /etc/dhcp/dhclient.conf

Server Hostname: debtest2
eth0 = DHCP from external router; 192.168.1.x
eth1 = 192.168.2.1, netmask 255.255.255.0

For DNS configuration

—— named.conf.local

#allow dns updates from localhost with key “rndc-key”
include “/etc/bind/rndc.key”;
controls {
inet 127.0.0.1 allow { localhost; } keys { “rndc-key”; };
};
#defines galaxy.local
zone “galaxy.local” {
type master;
file “db.galaxy.local”;
allow-update { key “rndc-key”; };
};
#defines our local subnet 192.168.2.0/24
zone “2.168.192.in-addr.arpa” {
type master;
notify no;
file “db.2.168.192″;
allow-update { key “rndc-key”; };
};

—— db.galaxy.local file

$TTL 3D
@ IN SOA ns.galaxy.local. postmaster.galaxy.local. (
201201081; serial, todays date + todays serial #
8H ; refresh, seconds
2H ; retry, seconds
4W ; expire, seconds
1D ) ; minimum, seconds
;
NS ns ; Inet Address of name server
MX 10 mail ; Primary Mail Exchanger
;
A 192.168.2.1 ; IP address
;
router A 192.168.2.1
ns CNAME router
dhcp CNAME ns.galaxy.local.
* A 192.168.2.1

—— db.2.168.192 file

$TTL 3D
@ IN SOA galaxy.local. postmaster.galaxy.local. (
201201081 ; serial, todays date + todays serial #
8H ; refresh, seconds
2H ; retry, seconds
4W ; expire, seconds
1D ) ; minimum, seconds
;
@ IN NS ns.galaxy.local.
@ IN PTR galaxy.local.
1 IN PTR router.galaxy.local.

Issue: nslookup debtest2 gives me error. I believe it does not function as intended.

Server: 206.248.154.22
Address: 206.248.154.22#52
server can’t find debtest2: NXDOMAIN

DHCP server configuration

—– /etc/defaults/isc-dhcp-server file

INTERFACES = “eth1″

—— /etc/dhcp/dhcpd.conf file

server-identifier router;
authoritative;
ddns-update-style interim;
include “/etc/bind/rndc.key”;
# Use what key in what zone
zone galaxy.local. {
primary 127.0.0.1;
key “rndc-key”;
}
#Standard DHCP info
option domain-name “galaxy.local”;
option domain-name-servers ns.galaxy.local;
default-lease-time 600;
max-lease-time 7200;
log-facility local7;
subnet 192.168.2.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
range 192.168.2.20 192.168.2.200;
option routers router.galaxy.local;
zone 2.168.192.in-addr.arpa. {
primary ns.galaxy.local;
key “rndc-key”;
}
zone galaxy.local. {
primary ns.galaxy.local;
key “rndc-key”;
}
}

When I boot up a client PC (configured with internal adapter), it gets the IP address from the DHCP server. Details are:

ifconfig: clientPC#1

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 08:00:27:b6:9b:d3
inet addr:192.168.2.21 Bcast:192.168.2.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::a00:27ff:feb6:9bd3/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:7 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:92 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:986 (986.0 B) TX bytes:15307 (15.3 KB)
Interrupt:10 Base address:0xd020

route -n clientPC#1

Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
169.254.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.0.0 U 1000 0 0 eth0
192.168.2.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 1 0 0 eth0

hostname -f: client PC#1
Mint12-PC1

Issue: I can’t resolve debtest2 from the client PC. Cannot access Internet as well. I think the gateway address is missing.

Any suggestions or perhaps any obvious error? Thank you again for helping me. Kevin (hot_wireless@yahoo.com)

This time I selected a different NIC in the network settings. Re-installed Debian. Inserted the above four lines. Brought up the interface. I am up and working.

*** Thanks again. Kevin

On the laptop, the same four lines gives me “Don’t seem to have all the variables for eth1/inet. Failed to bring up eth1″. Not sure why. Both installations are default, no additional package installed. Any suggestions? Thanks. Kevin

In case it still fails, using:

ifup eth1

might give you some info on why it fails.

I am running the system in oracle virtualbox. The eth0 adapter is set as bridge adapter and is getting IP address from my router. eth1 is set as an internal network adapter with the name as intnet-test (in Virtualbox).

My system is running debain squeeze (kernel 2.6.32-5-686) in terminal mode so there is no gui interface. I have not installed any of the server packages from debian. When the system comes to the login prompt, the eth0 interface is up. I am able to ping http://www.yahoo.com.

My issue is that when I execute ifconfig , I can only see eth0 and the loop back adapter in the listing. eth1 does not show up. I have been trying to set up the interface with a static IP address, by editing the /etc/network/interface file, however, the error message says I don’t have enough variables set for eth1 and the interface does not come up.

Any help with this is really appreciated. Thanks – Kevin