What's wrong with this zone file?
Michael Voight
mvoight at cisco.com
Fri Aug 6 19:18:12 UTC 1999
Thanks Bill,
I knew you couldn't have leading 0's but I didn't know it was only for 8
and 9.
Michael
bmanning at ISI.EDU wrote:
>
> >
> > 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.
> > >>
> > >> earth IN A 192.168.0.04
> > >> mercury IN A 192.168.0.02
> > >> saturn IN A 192.168.0.07
> > >> uranus IN A 192.168.0.08
> > >> neptune IN A 192.168.0.09
> > >>
> > >> 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 *****
>
> These other good people have told you what but not why.
> And you did ask why. Ahem...
>
> "...leading zeros cause the octet to be interpreted as
> an octal value, not decimal."
>
> It should be clear that octal values of 8 and 9 are meaningless.
>
> --bill
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