starting to dislike bind..aaarrrrgggghhhhh

[Mark.Andrews at nominum.com]

	Last time I looked the valid range for octets was 0..255,
	299 is not valid.

	Now named always logs a error message for every error that
	causes named to reject a zone.

	Mark

> 
> why in the world do i get errors like
> 
> one said that my named.conf had a ^M on line one..there was no ^M on line 1.
> i rekeyed in a new file and all was well....
> 
> i keep getting "zone rejected due to serial errors (serial number)"
> 
> my freaking syntax is fine...there are no freaking errors i can see....
> 
> here is the named.conf
> options {
> 	directory "/var/named";
> };
> zone "." {
> 	type hint;
> 	file "named.ca";
> };
> zone "test.com"{
> 	type master;
> 	file "test.hosts";
> };
> 
> zone "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa"{
> 	type master;
> 	file "named.local";
> };
> 
> and here is the hosts file
> ;
> ;		hemi's hosts
> ;
> ;
> 
> @	IN SOA	mercury.test.com. root.mercury.test.com. (
> 		1999022217	;	serial
> 		21600		;	refresh
> 		1800		;	retry
> 		604800	;	expire
> 		86400 )	;	minimum
> 
> ;define nameservers
> 	IN	NS	mercury.test.com.
> 
> ;define mail server
> 	IN 	MX 10	jebwebsrv1.test.com.
> 
> 
> ;aliases
> www		IN	CNAME	internet
> mail		IN	CNAME	jebwebsrv1
> 
> ;hosts in this zone
> localhost	IN	A	127.0.0.1
> jebwebsrv1	IN	A	299.299.52.2
> mercury	IN	A	299.299.52.5
> internet	IN	A	299.299.52.4
> ;end
> 

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