Need Help with DNS

[JudeZimZam]

So, recently my site grew far past what I planned and I'm being requested to add more and more to the site. Shared hosting didn't provide the room or bandwidth i needed so I switch to a VPS to accommodate. The only issue I'm having is that I cannot get a DNS going to get this working. As far as I've read I just edit the named.conf and set up the zones and I'm good to go... Not the case; or so I assume. I can't get named to start to save my life. Maybe I'm missing something. If anyone can help please do. I've set up a dummy domain I got from freenom to test before transferring everything from the other site.

Jude

 

[D. Strout]

Find out where BIND logs to and post the error logs. On Ubuntu, BIND logs to /var/log/syslog - Google around if you're not sure of the log location on the distro you're using. Which distro are you using, BTW?

 

[tonyg]

Why not just go with managed DNS from someone like dnsmadeeasy.com?

 

[splitice]

Or rage4? Their DNS services have a free tier that your traffic might not exceed.

 

[JudeZimZam]

Find out where BIND logs to and post the error logs. On Ubuntu, BIND logs to /var/log/syslog - Google around if you're not sure of the log location on the distro you're using. Which distro are you using, BTW?

Okay I've attached what I believe is the issue take a look maybe you'll know how to fix this

Why not just go with managed DNS from someone like dnsmadeeasy.com?

Or rage4? Their DNS services have a free tier that your traffic might not exceed.

I'm not one for change. This one is pretty small and I like what they have to offer.

 

[D. Strout]

Clearly, bind does not have the permission to open the configuration files. If you created them as root, you should change the ownership to the BIND user.

 

[syncrohost]

he.net provides free zone forwarding up to 50.  You should give them a try.