ignoring out-of-zone data and MX records

Mark.Andrews at nominum.com Mark.Andrews at nominum.com
Thu Mar 15 02:11:58 UTC 2001


	The line number is a indication only.

	In this case host1.example.com and www.example.com are not
	part of newexample.com.

	Mark

> I am trying to upgrade to bind 9.1.0 from bind 8.2.3 and am running
> into tons of little incompatibility problems.  One has to do with
> MX records that point to hosts that are in a different domain.  I have
> one host that acts as a placeholder for about 20 domains.
> 
> Consider the following from the zone file for one of them, newexample.com
> 
> =============================================================
> 	IN	NS	host1.example.com.
> 	IN	NS	www.example.com.		*
> 
> host1.example.com.	A	192.168.10.2
> www.example.com.	A	192.168.10.4		*
> 
> newexample.com.	IN	MX 10 host1.example.com.	*
> 
> www		A	192.168.10.4			*
> ================================================================
> 
> The lines flagged with [*] get the following error.
> 
> dns_master_load: external.hosts:26: ignoring out-of-zone data
> 
> dig only lists the SOA for the zone, nothing else.
> 
> Linolil
> 
> 
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