DNS Configuration in Tiger – Still not working

Hi All,

I have read just about every article I can find concerning DNS configuration with Tiger including the best practices article here on AFP548 but I’m still not able to get it to work.

I have a G5 running Tiger 10.4. When I configure DNS, I create a new zone called skuli.com (which is also the “outside” domain name that is pointed to my ISPs server). and a server name of “server” so the FQSN is server.skuli.com.

The IP address as assigned by my router for the server is 192.168.0.100 and naturally there is a name server of “server.skuli.com.”. I’ve then gone to the machines tab the only machine there is the server itself which is fine and which was placed there automatically. I’ve added an alias of “ns1” to it since this machine will only be serving files and I am assuming it only needs to be configured as a name server. Correct?

I then start DNS, go to Terminal and type in host server.skuli.com
and this is what I get in return:

Host server.skuli.com not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)

If I try to do a reverse look up by typing host 192.168.0.100 I get this:

Host 100.0.168.192.in-addr.arpa not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)

What gives? Is this because my outside domain is parked on an outside DNS server? Is it becasue my connection to the Internet is through Verizon DSL (adsl)?

I should also point out that I have a router set up that is running DHCP. I have set the static IP address of the server (192.168.0.100) as a static IP address for this machine on the router. The IP address given to my by Verizon is something like 70.0.18.70. Does this matter?

I could really use some simple guideance here. Thanks!