Syntax of LOC Record is okay for bind8 but not bind9.
Mark.Andrews at nominum.com
Mark.Andrews at nominum.com
Tue Feb 27 00:07:58 UTC 2001
You are most probably not driving named-checkzone correctly.
e.g.
named-checkzone okstate.edu filename
you can only remove the filename when it is *exactly* the
same as the zone name. 9.2 will require both arguements
as people keep getting this wrong.
Mark
> Also, on the general topic of syntax, I have used Philip Hazel's
> excellent perl script called makezones for several years to
> police the syntax of our zone files plus look for common errors
> that can accidentally get in. One thing it does is to translate
> all @ entries in to the domain being built so instead of
>
> @ IN MX 10 this.domain.name.okstate.edu.
>
> You get the FQDN of
>
> okstate.edu. IN MX 10 this.domain.name.okstate.edu.
>
> The named-checkzone utility sees that as out of zone
> data.
>
> This last discovery drove me crazy this afternoon until I
> simply took out all the absolute domain references and everything
> came up beautifully.
>
> The absolute references have never been a problem before,
> but that's life in the big city, I guess.
>
> Martin McCormick
>
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