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I have CentOS 3.9 installed on my server… after everything I’ve read it seems that all the files that should be there are, including named.conf, resolv.conf, and there are a few zone files under /var/named.

I was suggested from something I read to do the following…
chkconfig –add named
chkconfig –levels 2345 named on
chkconfig –levels 016 named off

I did this, and ran chkconfig –list | grep named

the result were:

named 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off.

I started the named service sucessfully, but when I did a nslookup -sil I recieved an error on “localhost”

Server: 66.241.143.34
Address: 66.241.143.34#53

** server can’t find localhost: NXDOMAIN

I’m getting many errors in my logfile like this…
ERROR: (3060657072) dns::mx_list* dns::resolver::get_mx(const std::string&) dnsresolver.cc(223): No address associated with $

I’m new at this and my question is…

1) what else do I need other than what’s installed and what zone files do I need and how should they read?

2) Is there anything else I can do to make this as good as I can because I email a newsletter to fair amount of members?

3) out of curiosity is this incomplete so far being that the zone files aren’t complete. I do have the main zone file mentioning all the DNS sites.

4) One last thing can I make it any more effienent by using nameservers from somewhere else other than my hosting company?

I’d really appreciate some help, I’m getting quite a few errors in my logfile.

Thanks,
Max9

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