Hey, I just registered a new domain name and I'm planning on hosting it myself. I've talked to several people about DNS and nameserver and have done research on the subject. I'm planning on creating my own primary DNS and using secondary.org as my secondary DNS. I've got ns.domain.com setup with my registrar already, and all I need now is to setup the zone files and /etc/named.conf. I've tried several times setting these files up, without success. I've used the dig @localhost domain.com and received a SERVFAIL. Below is my named.conf file, master zone file, and reverse zone file. ----------NAMED.CONF------------ ## named.conf - configuration for bind # # Generated automatically by redhat-config-bind, alchemist et al. # Any changes not supported by redhat-config-bind should be put # in /etc/named.custom # controls { inet 127.0.0.1 allow { localhost; } keys { rndckey; }; }; include "/etc/rndc.key"; options { directory "/etc/namedb"; // Working directory allow-query { any; }; // This is the default recursion no; // Do not provide recursive service }; // Root server hints // zone "." { type hint; file "root.hint"; }; zone "localhost" { type master; file "localhost.db"; notify no; }; // Provide a reverse mapping for the loopback address 127.0.0.1 zone "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa" { type master; file "localhost.rev"; notify no; }; // We are the master server for example.com zone "tlps.org" { type master; file "tlps.org.db"; // IP addresses of slave servers allowed to transfer example.com allow-transfer { 127.0.0.1; 172.16.0.1; 216.99.211.43; 66.46.181.116; }; }; zone "0.16.172.in-addr.arpa" { type master; file "tlps.org.rev"; // IP addresses of slave servers allowed to transfer example.com allow-transfer { 127.0.0.1; 172.16.0.1; 216.99.211.43; 66.46.181.116; }; }; ----------END NAMED.CONF----------- ----------master zone file----------- $ORIGIN tlps.org $TTL 86400 @ IN SOA ns.tlps.org. root.tlps.org. ( 2001050906 21600 3600 604800 86400 ) IN A 172.16.0.1 IN MX 10 mail.tlps.org. IN NS ns.tlps.org. IN NS dns.secondary.org. ns IN A 172.16.0.1 www IN CNAME ns ftp IN CNAME ns mail IN CNAME ns ---------end master zone file--------- ---------reverse master zone file--------- $ORIGIN 0.16.172.in-addr.arpa $TTL 86400 @ IN SOA ns.tlps.org. root.tlps.org. ( 2001050906 21600 3600 604800 86400 ) IN NS ns.tlps.org. IN NS dns.secondary.org. 1 IN PTR ns.tlps.org. -------end reverse master zone file------- If anybody knows what's wrong with these files, or if you have any suggestions I'd be happy to hear them. If you need to contact me, my email is mrmoose@z-z.ath.cx Thanks in advance, ~Steven