[Newbie] Zonefileproblems

[Mark Damrose]

"Sven Michael Geschke" <smgeschke at gmx.net> wrote in message
news:aim5ob$b24k$1 at isrv4.isc.org...
> Hi
> I run BIND 8.2 on a SuSE-Linux 8.0 Box (Kernel 2.4.18)
> and keep running into problems with my configuration.
> at startup the server reports the following in /var/log/warn:
>
> Aug  5 11:14:51 homebase named[796]: master zone "mhpwe.com" (IN) rejected
> due to errors (serial 2002080530)

Were there any other errors with it that might be more descriptive?

>
> as you can see in the serialnumber i tried it 30 times today
> (not to mention yesterday) and i'm pretty pi**ed off.
>
> the zonefile in question looks loike this (ip-addresses not
representative):
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
--
> --
> $ttl 38400
> mhpwe.com.                IN SOA     homebase.   hostmaster.mhpwe.com. (
>                                    2002080530
>                                   10800
>                                    3600
>                                    604800
>                                    38400 )

Do you really mean homebase. or did you mean homebase.mhpwe.com. ?

>
> mhpwe.com.                                IN     NS
> homebase.
> homebase.mhpwe.com.                IN     HINFO             Commodore-64
> C64-Basic    ; my boss LOVES that joke
> homebase.mhpwe.com.                IN     LOC                 MHP Office
> Heilbronn/DE

The LOC record does not take freeform text.  It has a specific format for
latitute, longitude and altitude.  Change this to a TXT record, figure out
the correct syntax or delete it.

>
> mhpwe.com.                                IN     NS
> ns.nacamar.net.
> mhpwe.com.                                IN     NS
> ns1.dnsexit.com.
> mhpwe.com.                                IN     NS
> ns2.dnsexit.com.
>
> mhpwe.com.                                IN     MX      10
homebase
>
> marschall.mhpwe.com.                 IN     A
> 192.168.0.1
> malue.mhpwe.com.                      IN     A
> 192.168.0.2
> admin.mhpwe.com.                      IN     A
> 192.168.0.3
> carnage.mhpwe.com.                   IN     A
> 192.168.0.253
> homebase.mhpwe.com.                IN     A
> 192.168.0.254
> outgate.mhpwe.com.                    IN     A
> 192.168.1.1
>
> mail.mhpwe.com.                     IN CNAME         homebase
> www.mhpwe.com.                   IN CNAME         homebase
> ftp.mhpwe.com.                       IN CNAME         homebase
> quake.mhpwe.com.                  IN CNAME         carnage
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
--
> Of course we have matching in-adddr.arpa files which look like this:
> (Two because we'll have two different class-c's)
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
--
> $ttl 38400
> 0.168.192.in-addr.arpa. IN SOA homebase. hostmaster.mhpwe.com. (
>    2002080505
>    10800
>    3600
>    604800
>    38400 )
>
> 0.168.192.in-addr.arpa. IN NS homebase.
>
> 1.0.168.192.in-addr.arpa. IN PTR marschall.
> 2.0.168.192.in-addr.arpa. IN PTR malue.
> 3.0.168.192.in-addr.arpa. IN PTR admin.
> 253.0.168.192.in-addr.arpa. IN PTR carnage.
> 254.0.168.192.in-addr.arpa. IN PTR homebase.
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
--
> $ttl 38400
> 1.168.192.in-addr.arpa. IN SOA homebase. hostmaster.mhpwe.com. (
>    2002080502
>    10800
>    3600
>    604800
>    38400 )
>
> 1.168.192.in-addr.arpa.         IN NS homebase.
>
> 1.1.168.192.in-addr.arpa. IN PTR outgate.mhpwe.com.
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
--
>
> The question is: where's the thing that i'm doing wrong ?
>
>
> THIA
> smg
>
>
>