bind-9.2 and private root-hints strangeness

[Mark Damrose]

"Peter Hakanson" <xpeha at vtd.volvo.se> wrote in message
news:a342qc$2n4 at pub3.rc.vix.com...
>
> Installing bind-9.2 on a network where private roots is used
> gives a few strange things :
> 1/ a message :
> "Jan 28 16:05:28 4D:vip named[14621]: extra data in root hints
> 'db.root-cache' "
>
> when no extra data is present :
> vip%cat /var/named/db.root-cache
> ;
> .                  3600000        IN      NS      jedi.private.se.
> jedi.private.se.   3600000        IN      A       121.97.124.18
> .                  3600000        IN      NS      dns1.private.se.
> dns2.private.se.   3600000        IN      A       121.97.125.24

This may have been a result of your munging, but the NS record and the A
record don't match.

>
>
> And no, there is no "strange characters" in the file.
> I have munged the real customer ( it's not reachable from
> Internet anyway)
>
> named.conf ( the appropiate part ) shows :
> zone "." in {
>         type hint;
>         file "db.root-cache";
> };
>
> 2/
> The private roots seems to be accepted, the TTL's however is
> ignored :
> ;; QUESTION SECTION:
> ;.                              IN      NS
>
> ;; ANSWER SECTION:
> .                       3600    IN      NS      jedi.private.se.
> .                       3600    IN      NS      dns2.private.se.
>
> ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
> dns2.private.se.          604800  IN      A       121.97.125.24
> jedi.private.se.          604800  IN      A       121.97.124.18
>
> Look at the glue record, i have no idea where the 3600 is
> picked up. Will this create problems ?
>
>
>
> Finally, i'll just report that compilation on hp-ux 10.20 and IRIX
> Release 6.5 IP27 went without any problems.
>
>
>
> Peter h
>