Not at "wits end" but still a bit confused......

[Martes G Wigglesworth]

I have run named -g and the following is the result and I think that I
was using a serial that was out of range.  I have not seen anything
referencing such cases.  Maybe I did not notice it is the docs, however,
what is the standard for serial length?  I had to remove the year from
the serial, and the file loaded corrected, of which I guess it was not,
in previous cases.

Thanks for the assistance. I am not sure why named -g did not pick up
the bad domain origin line, however, I guess it was paying more
attention to the "out of range" serial number.

All is running smoothly after I removed the 20 from 2008 in the serial,
and made the change of adding the root "." to the end of the orgin
declaration.  I am sure it would have gave me some wierd issues as well.
I made the changes to the other zone file serials, and they are
functioning as well.

Thanks again. 




On Mon, 2008-04-21 at 01:56 -0400, Barry Margolin wrote:
> In article <fuh8l0$1oah$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
>  Martes G Wigglesworth <martes at mgwigglesworth.com> wrote:
> 
> > I am having trouble resolving my authoritative domain(s).  I am still in
> > the test phase, however, I am a bit stumped.  I have not finished
> > re-evaluating all aspect of my file(s), however, I wanted to shoot an
> > email just in case someone sees a problem prior to my finishing my
> > analysis of the dis-functionality.  I have stopped and restarted named
> > about five times in the last five hours, and I have seen no difference
> > in functionality, asside from a brief period of resolution, where I
> > received no address entry in the "question section." section of the
> > response. I have been attempting to get my own domain(s) working,
> > however, I through in example.com just for testing, and nothing other
> > than root server inquiries from the internet work through my name
> > server(s). I have listed it below my zone file.
> > 
> > I would appreciate some assistance, because I don't see why the simple
> > file is not resolving anything.
> > 
> > My zone file, ".../master/example.net" is listed below:
> > 
> > /*********************ZONE*FILE**********************/
> > cat /etc/namedb/master/example.com
> > $TTL 86400
> > $ORIGIN example.com
> 
> Either remove the $ORIGIN directive, or change it to
> 
> $ORIGIN example.com.
> 
> The origin you specified is example.com.example.com.
> 
> I'm surprised you didn't get log messages telling you that you don't 
> have an SOA record at the zone top.  Or did you even check your log?
>