Issues getting DNS Master/Slave to work properly

Hi all,

I am attempting to run my own DNS servers for my domain 'domain.com'. So I've set glue records in my registrar for 'ns1.domain.com' and 'ns2.domain.com'.

So on the server corresponding to ns1.domain.com, I installed Virtualmin. On ns2.domain.com, I installed Webmin and BIND.

Thereafter, I followed the instructions on http://www.virtualmin.com/documentation/dns/slave-configuration and managed to set-up ns2.domain.com as a slave successfully.

I tried creating a master zone from Webmin in ns1.domain.com and I saw that it was transferred successfully to ns2.domain.com.

However, the problem arises when I try to add a Virtual Server for 'domain.com' from within ns1.domain.com:

(1) Even though the output page shows that it copied DNS settings to the slave successfully, when I login to Webmin on ns2.domain.com, although the zone record for 'domain.com' is created, addresses etc. have not been copied over.

(2) In the DNS records created for 'domain.com' as seen on ns1.domain.com, the A record for 'ns2.domain.com' points to the IP of ns1.domain.com instead of ns2.domain.com.

Thus, for some reason, Virtualmin isn't playing nice with my slave configuration for some reason. I have to manually edit the zone file in Webmin on ns1.domain.com AFTER creating the virtual server in Virtualmin in order for all my addresses etc. to be transferred over.

What am I doing wrong here?