Why is BIND responding with 2 SOA records???
Mark.Andrews at iengines.com
Mark.Andrews at iengines.com
Tue Dec 14 01:47:23 UTC 1999
Install named-xfer from BIND 8.2.2-P5. You have named-xfer
from BIND 8.2.2-P3 installed.
BIND 8.2.2-P3 accidently wrote the second SOA record at the end
of a zone transfer to the master file..
Mark
> Hello,
>
> I have two nameservers setup with one as the primary and one as the
> secondary for a number of zones. Until just a few days ago,
> everything was running smoothly on BIND 8.2.2P5. I updated a zone
> file on the primary server and restarted the secondary so that it
> would pull a fresh copy. The secondary did receive the updated data,
> but it left an error message in the syslog:
>
> Dec 9 15:22:45 mail named[3771]: Zone "manteca.net" (file slave/manteca.net)
> :
> multiple SOA RRs found
> Dec 9 15:22:45 mail named[3771]: slave zone "manteca.net" (IN) rejected due
> to errors (serial 1999100800)
>
> I checked the zone file format and found it to be correct, only one
> SOA record. I then erased all of the data files on the secondary
> server and restarted named to find out if any other zones were having
> the same problem. All of them were rejected, even those that I
> haven't touched for months. I had a closer look using nslookup and
> queried the primary for an SOA record for any domain, and here's
> what I got:
>
> > ls -t SOA manteca.net
> [ns1.valleyip.net]
> $ORIGIN manteca.net.
> @ 1D IN SOA ns1.valleyip.net. dns.valleyip.net. (
> 1999100800 ; serial
> 3H ; refresh
> 1H ; retry
> 1W ; expiry
> 1D ) ; minimum
>
> 1D IN SOA ns1.valleyip.net. dns.valleyip.net. (
> 1999100800 ; serial
> 3H ; refresh
> 1H ; retry
> 1W ; expiry
> 1D ) ; minimum
>
> Am I missing something in the configuration file? Has anyone else
> ever seen this? Any help will be very greatly appreciated.
>
> Thank you,
> ~brian
>
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Mark Andrews, Internet Engines Inc. / Internet Software Consortium
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PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742 INTERNET: Mark.Andrews at iengines.com
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