Hi there Serverfault folks!

First of all: sorry about the title, I had some problem coming up with the proper title.

I have a little home server set up, for internet sharing, samba, basic http, dlna mediaserver and what not, and I happend to have a domain at hand, so I thought why not direct it to this computer?

I have a BIND 9.8.0 installed, and - afaik - configured it properly.

For a few days, the public view did not worked, and I really did not cared, since the local view worked. But now suddenly, even the local view fails.

If I try to query the nameserver for anything in my domain, it returns the following error:

$ nslookup andromeda.dafaces.com
;; Got SERVFAIL reply from ::1, trying next server
;; Got SERVFAIL reply from ::1, trying next server
Server:         127.0.0.1
Address:        127.0.0.1#53

** server can't find andromeda.dafaces.com.dafaces.com: SERVFAIL

Also, the public view points to the old ip address of the domain, probably because of the same error.

Some information about the system:

$ uname -a
Linux tressis 2.6.37-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Mar 15 09:21:17 CET 2011 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5000+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux

$ named -v
BIND 9.8.0

And the named.conf file:

# cat /etc/named.conf
//
// /etc/named.conf
//

include "/etc/rndc.key";

#controls {
#       inet 127.0.0.1 allow {localhost; } keys { "dnskulcs"; };
#};

options {
        directory "/var/named";
        pid-file "/var/run/named/named.pid";
        auth-nxdomain yes;
        datasize default;
// Uncomment these to enable IPv6 connections support
// IPv4 will still work:
        listen-on-v6 { any; };
        listen-on { any; };
// Add this for no IPv4:
//      listen-on { none; };

// Default security settings.
//      allow-recursion { 127.0.0.1; ::1; 192.168.1.0/24; };
//      allow-recursion { any; };
        allow-query { any; };
        allow-transfer { 127.0.0.1; ::1; 92.243.14.172; 87.98.164.164; 88.191.64.64; };
        allow-update { key "dnskulcs"; };
        version none;
        hostname none;
        server-id none;
        zone-statistics yes;

        forwarders { 213.46.246.53; 213.26.246.54; 8.8.8.8; 8.8.4.4; 192.188.242.65; 193.227.196.3; 2001:470:20::2; };
};

view "local" {

        match-clients { 192.168.1.0/24; 127.0.0.1; ::1; fec0:0:0:ffff::/64; };
        recursion yes;

        zone "localhost" IN {
                type master;
                file "localhost.zone";
                allow-transfer { any; };
        };

        zone "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa" IN {
                type master;
                file "127.0.0.zone";
                allow-transfer { any; };
        };

        zone "." IN {
                type hint;
                file "root.hint";
        };

        zone "dafaces.com" IN {
                type master;
                file "internal/dafaces.com.fw";
                allow-update { key "dnskulcs"; };
        };

        zone "1.168.192.in-addr.arpa" IN {
                type master;
                file "internal/dafaces.com.rev";
                allow-update { key "dnskulcs"; };
        };
};

view "public" {
        match-clients { any;};
        recursion no;

        zone "dafaces.com" IN {
                type master;
                file "external/dafaces.com.fw";
                allow-transfer {
                        87.98.164.164; 195.234.42.1; 88.191.64.64;
                };
        };
};

//zone "example.org" IN {
//      type slave;
//      file "example.zone";
//      masters {
//              192.168.1.100;
//      };
//      allow-query { any; };
//      allow-transfer { any; };
//};

logging {
        channel xfer-log {
                file "/var/log/named.log";
                print-category yes;
                print-severity yes;
                print-time yes;
                severity info;
        };
        category xfer-in { xfer-log; };
        category xfer-out { xfer-log; };
        category notify { xfer-log; };
};

All help would be highly appreciated!

EDIT: Zone files:

# cat /var/named/internal/dafaces.com.fw
$ORIGIN .
$TTL 3600       ; 1 hour
dafaces.com             IN SOA  tressis.dafaces.com. postmaster.dafaces.com. (
                                2011032201 ; serial
                                28800      ; refresh (8 hours)
                                7200       ; retry (2 hours)
                                2419200    ; expire (4 weeks)
                                3600       ; minimum (1 hour)
                                )
                        NS      tressis.dafaces.com.
                        A       192.168.1.1
                        MX      10 mail.dafaces.com.
$ORIGIN _tcp.dafaces.com.
_http                   SRV     0 5 80 www.dafaces.com.
_ssh                    SRV     0 5 22 tressis.dafaces.com.
$ORIGIN dafaces.com.
acrisius                A       192.168.1.230
andromeda               A       192.168.1.7
andromeda-win7          CNAME   andromeda
aspasia                 A       192.168.1.233
athena                  A       192.168.1.232
callisto                A       192.168.1.102
db                      A       192.168.1.1
management              A       192.168.1.1 ; web management for the router functions
haley                   A       192.168.1.5
hoth                    A       192.168.1.101
mail                    A       192.168.1.1
satelite                A       192.168.1.20
sony-player             A       192.168.1.103
                        TXT     "310f16de2d2712dfc4ae6e5c54f60f828e"
torrent                 A       192.168.1.1
tracker                 A       192.168.1.1
tressis                 A       192.168.1.1
www                     A       192.168.1.1
zeus                    A       192.168.1.231

and

# cat /var/named/external/dafaces.com.fw
$ORIGIN .
$TTL 3600
dafaces.com             IN SOA  ns.dafaces.com. postmaster.dafaces.com. (
                                        2011032405; serial
                                        28800; refresh
                                        7200; retry
                                        2419200; expire
                                        3600; minimum
                                        )

                        NS      ns.dafaces.com.
                        NS      ns0.xname.org.
                        NS      ns1.xname.org.
                        NS      ns2.xname.org.

                        A       89.135.129.37
                        MX      10 mail.dafaces.com.

$ORIGIN dafaces.com.
;Szolgaltatasok
_ssh._tcp               SRV     0 5 22 tressis
_http._tcp              SRV     0 5 80 www

ns                      A       89.135.129.37
hoth                    A       89.135.129.37
www                     A       89.135.129.37
mail                    A       89.135.129.37
db                      A       89.135.129.37

torrent                 A       89.135.129.37
tracker                 A       89.135.129.37

Edit:

Ohh, hell I almost forgot. Since the node is connected to the internet via a residential connection, there is a possibility, that the public ipv4 address will change(but thank god, it is a very rare case), so I daily update the external IP address in the zone file with a shellscript:

# cat /etc/cron.daily/dnsupdate
#!/bin/sh

FILE="/var/named/external/dafaces.com.fw"
SERIAL=$(date +%Y%m%d05)
PUBLIC_IP=$(ifconfig internet |sed -n "/inet addr:.*255.255.255.255/{s/.*inet addr://; s/ .*//; p}")

cat $FILE | sed --posix 's/^.* serial$/\t\t\t\t\t'$SERIAL'; serial/' | sed --posix 's/[0-9]*\.[0-9]*\.[0-9]*\.[0-9]*/'$PUBLIC_IP'/'  > /tmp/ujzona
mv /tmp/ujzona $FILE
/etc/rc.d/named reload