Krdytkyu

Following is my bind9 configuration
the domain I want to configure is home.lan it is home network
/etc/bind/named.conf.local is following

zone "home.lan" IN {

    type master;

    file "/etc/bind/zones/home.lan.db";

};

zone "1.168.192.in-addr.arpa" {

    type master;

    file "/etc/bind/zones/rev.1.168.192.in-addr.arpa";

};

/etc/bind/named.conf.options is following

options {

        directory "/var/cache/bind";



        // If there is a firewall between you and nameservers you want

        // to talk to, you may need to fix the firewall to allow multiple

        // ports to talk.  See http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/800113



        // If your ISP provided one or more IP addresses for stable

        // nameservers, you probably want to use them as forwarders.

        // Uncomment the following block, and insert the addresses replacing

        // the all-0's placeholder.



        // forwarders {

        //      0.0.0.0;

        // };



        //========================================================================

        // If BIND logs error messages about the root key being expired,

        // you will need to update your keys.  See https://www.isc.org/bind-keys

        //========================================================================

        dnssec-validation auto;



        auth-nxdomain no;    # conform to RFC1035

        listen-on-v6 { any; };

};

since it is a personal network I do not need any forwarders section,so did not configured it.

/etc/bind/zones/home.lan.db

; Use semicolons to add comments.

; Host-to-IP Address DNS Pointers for home.lan

; Note: The extra “.” at the end of the domain names are important.



; The following parameters set when DNS records will expire, etc.

; Importantly, the serial number must always be iterated upward to prevent

; undesirable consequences. A good format to use is YYYYMMDDII where

; the II index is in case you make more that one change in the same day.

$ORIGIN .

$TTL 86400      ; 1 day

home.lan. IN SOA ubuntu.home.lan. hostmaster.home.lan. kalu.home.lan. (

    2008080901 ; serial

    8H ; refresh

    4H ; retry

    4W ; expire

    1D ; minimum

)



; NS indicates that ubuntu is the name server on home.lan

; MX indicates that ubuntu is (also) the mail server on home.lan

home.lan. IN NS kalu.home.lan.

home.lan. IN MX 10 ubuntu.home.lan.



$ORIGIN home.lan.



; Set the address for localhost.home.lan

localhost    IN A 127.0.0.1



; Set the hostnames in alphabetical order

home         IN A 192.168.1.7

ntinstall    IN A 192.168.1.7

kalu         IN A 192.168.1.7

router       IN A 192.168.1.1

server       IN A 192.168.1.5

and /etc/bind/zones/rev.1.168.192.in-addr.arpa

; IP Address-to-Host DNS Pointers for the 192.168.1 subnet

@ IN SOA ubuntu.home.lan. hostmaster.home.lan. (

    2008080901 ; serial

    8H ; refresh

    4H ; retry

    4W ; expire

    1D ; minimum

)

; define the authoritative name server

           IN NS ubuntu.home.lan.

; our hosts, in numeric order

1         IN PTR router.home.lan.

2         IN PTR ubuntu.home.lan.

3         IN PTR ntinstall.home.lan.

4         IN PTR kalu.home.lan.

and /etc/hostnames

kalu

and /etc/resolv.conf on bind9 server is

# Dynamic resolv.conf(5) file for glibc resolver(3) generated by resolvconf(8)

#     DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE BY HAND -- YOUR CHANGES WILL BE OVERWRITTEN

nameserver 127.0.0.1

search home.lan





at the client machine

/etc/resolv.conf



# Dynamic resolv.conf(5) file for glibc resolver(3) generated by resolvconf(8)

#     DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE BY HAND -- YOUR CHANGES WILL BE OVERWRITTEN

nameserver 127.0.0.1

nameserver 192.168.1.7

search home.lan

and from client machine when I try to ping
I get

$ ping kalu.home.lan

ping: unknown host kalu.home.lan

there is no file like /var/log/bind.log
so not sure where to look for
here is dig output at server

dig kalu.home.lan

; <<>> DiG 9.8.1-P1 <<>> kalu.home.lan

;; global options: +cmd

;; Got answer:

;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: SERVFAIL, id: 36937

;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0



;; QUESTION SECTION:

;kalu.home.lan.         IN  A



;; Query time: 0 msec

;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1)

;; WHEN: Fri Oct 11 23:59:03 2013

;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 31

and at the client machine dig kalu.home.lan gives following

 dig kalu.home.lan



; <<>> DiG 9.8.1-P1 <<>> kalu.home.lan

;; global options: +cmd

;; Got answer:

;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 25537

;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0



;; QUESTION SECTION:

;kalu.home.lan.         IN  A



;; AUTHORITY SECTION:

.           7388    IN  SOA a.root-servers.net. nstld.verisign-grs.com. 2013101101 1800 900 604800 86400



;; Query time: 43 msec

;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1)

;; WHEN: Fri Oct 11 23:59:34 2013

;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 106

what is the mistake in above dns configuration?
kalu is the hostname of machine on which I am configuring all this.

To enable loggin in bind 9 rndc querylog
it shows

Oct 12 01:42:16 ubuntu named[11408]: dns_rdata_fromtext: /etc/bind/zones/home.lan.db:11: near 'kalu.home.lan.': not a valid number

Oct 12 01:42:16 ubuntu named[11408]: zone home.lan/IN: loading from master file /etc/bind/zones/home.lan.db failed: not a valid number

Oct 12 01:42:16 ubuntu named[11408]: zone home.lan/IN: not loaded due to errors.

Oct 12 01:42:16 ubuntu named[11408]: zone localhost/IN: loaded serial 2

Oct 12 01:42:16 ubuntu named[11408]: managed-keys-zone ./IN: loaded serial 5

and I see

 sudo named-checkzone home.lan home.lan.db

[sudo] password for hp: 

zone home.lan/IN: loading from master file home.lan.db failed: file not found

zone home.lan/IN: not loaded due to errors.

The IPs for files "home.lan.db" and "rev.1.168.192.in-addr.arpa" don't match. Just correct them.

/etc/bind/zones/home.lan.db



; Set the hostnames in alphabetical order

home         IN A 192.168.1.7

ntinstall    IN A 192.168.1.7

kalu         IN A 192.168.1.7

router       IN A 192.168.1.1

server       IN A 192.168.1.5





/etc/bind/zones/rev.1.168.192.in-addr.arpa



; our hosts, in numeric order

1         IN PTR router.home.lan.

2         IN PTR ubuntu.home.lan.

3         IN PTR ntinstall.home.lan.

4         IN PTR kalu.home.lan.



############



# For example, the correct one should be:

/etc/bind/zones/home.lan.db



; Set the hostnames in alphabetical order

kalu         IN A 192.168.1.4

ntinstall    IN A 192.168.1.3

router       IN A 192.168.1.1

ubuntu       IN A 192.168.1.2





/etc/bind/zones/rev.1.168.192.in-addr.arpa



; our hosts, in numeric order

1         IN PTR router.home.lan.

2         IN PTR ubuntu.home.lan.

3         IN PTR ntinstall.home.lan.

4         IN PTR kalu.home.lan.