What's wrong with this zone file?

SilverLeif silverleif at infoave.net
Fri Aug 6 14:32:22 UTC 1999


Try using 192.168.0.9  instead of 192.168.0.09   


On 16 Jun 1999 11:26:23 -0700, Michael Voight <mvoight at cisco.com>
wrote:

>Don't use 0 in front of the number. It is .2, not .02.
>
>Michael
>
>Steve Snyder wrote:
>> 
>> Following the directions in the 3rd edition of "DNS and BIND" I
>> hand-created a zone database from the data in my /etc/hosts file.  When I
>> started named, it consistently complained about the same 2 records.
>> 
>> I inspected the file over and over and in several different editors, trying
>> to determine how these 2 records were different from all the others.  They
>> looked good to me.  Finally, I downloaded the utility h2n (used in the
>> book) and had it automatically create the files.  Named still issues the
>> same complaints!  The records complained about are the same, though now on
>> different lines in the file.
>> 
>> This is the complaint I get:
>> 
>> corona named[1011]: db.snydernet:25: IP Address error (192.168.0.08)
>> corona named[1011]: db.snydernet:27: IP Address error (192.168.0.09)
>> corona named[1011]: master zone "snydernet.lan" (IN) rejected due to errors (serial 1999061600)
>> 
>> And this is db.snydernet, the zone file containing the "bad" records:
>> 
>> @ IN  SOA corona.snydernet.lan. root.corona.snydernet.lan. ( 1999061600 10800 3600 604800 86400 )
>>   IN  NS  corona.snydernet.lan.
>> 
>> localhost            IN  A     127.0.0.1
>> ljet4m               IN  A     192.168.0.16
>> ljet4m               IN  MX    10 ljet4m.snydernet.lan.
>> venus                IN  A     192.168.0.03
>> venus                IN  MX    10 venus.snydernet.lan.
>> dj1120               IN  A     192.168.0.17
>> dj1120               IN  MX    10 dj1120.snydernet.lan.
>> corona               IN  A     192.168.0.12
>> corona               IN  MX    10 corona.snydernet.lan.
>> jupiter              IN  A     192.168.0.06
>> jupiter              IN  MX    10 jupiter.snydernet.lan.
>> mars                 IN  A     192.168.0.05
>> mars                 IN  MX    10 mars.snydernet.lan.
>> pluto                IN  A     192.168.0.10
>> pluto                IN  MX    10 pluto.snydernet.lan.
>> earth                IN  A     192.168.0.04
>> earth                IN  MX    10 earth.snydernet.lan.
>> mercury              IN  A     192.168.0.02
>> mercury              IN  MX    10 mercury.snydernet.lan.
>> saturn               IN  A     192.168.0.07
>> saturn               IN  MX    10 saturn.snydernet.lan.
>> uranus               IN  A     192.168.0.08
>> uranus               IN  MX    10 uranus.snydernet.lan.
>> neptune              IN  A     192.168.0.09
>> neptune              IN  MX    10 neptune.snydernet.lan.
>> 
>> Named always objects to the "uranus" and "neptune" IN records.  If I
>> comment-out these 2 records, named will start up without error.
>> 
>> Can anyone tell me why these 2 specific records are considered
>> unacceptable?  Thank you.
>> 
>> ***** Steve Snyder *****
>



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