named error: expected prefix length near '4'

[David Botham]

bind-users-bounce at isc.org wrote on 10/04/2004 12:25:51 AM:
> When this message appeared in /var/log/messages, I removed lines in
> the named.conf until it is barebones but the error persists. How do I
> determine what is being referenced as '4'?
> 
> ---------/var/log/messages---------
> starting BIND 9.2.3 -u named -t /var/named/chroot

I noticed that you are running named in a chroot jail.  What is the 
absolute path of the named.conf file below?

If it is /etc/named.conf and not /var/named/chroot/etc/named.conf then you 
are editing the wrong file.

You should be editing /var/named/chroot/etc/named.conf.


Thanks,


Dave...


> using 1 CPU
> named startup succeeded
> loading configuration from '/etc/named.conf'
> /etc/named.conf:2: expected prefix length near '4,'
> loading configuration: unexpected token
> exiting (due to fatal error)
> ---------/etc/named.conf------------
> // generated by named-bootconf.pl
> 
> options {
>         directory "/var/named";
>         // query-source address * port 53;
> };
> 
> //
> // a caching only nameserver config
> //
> 
> controls {
>         inet 127.0.0.1 allow { localhost; } keys { rndckey; };
> };
> 
> include "/etc/rndc.key";
> 
> zone "." {
>         type hint;
>         file "named.ca";
> };
> zone "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa" {
>         type master;
>         file "named.local";
> };
> 
> Thank
> Benu
>