Slave Servers Return SERVFAIL
Merton Campbell Crockett
m.c.crockett at roadrunner.com
Tue Nov 18 04:25:13 UTC 2008
We have a sparsely populated IN-ADDR.ARPA zone used to support our
network infrastructure. I had originally defined the following type
of zone structure.
bbb.aaa.in-addr.arpa
1.bbb.aaa.in-addr.arpa
...
254.bbb.aaa.in-addr.arpa
Within the bbb.aaa.in-addr.arpa zone file, the following records were
defined for each subdomain.
1 IN NS ns1.company.com
IN NS ns2.company.com
IN NS ns3.company.com
My colleagues decided to do away with the delegations and separate
zone files and placed all the PTR records in a single zone file.
1.1 IN PTR some-host.company.com.
1.2 IN PTR other-host.company.com.
The master, ns1.company.com, has no problem resolving the IP
addresses. The slaves, however, always return a SERVFAIL.
Is this the result of $ORIGIN statements that are inserted into the
zone by the master?
Given the above example, the slaves would have the following elements
in the zone file.
SORIGIN 1.bbb.aaa.in-addr.arpa.
1 PTR some-host.company.com.
$ORIGIN 2.bbb.aaa.in-addr.arpa.
2 PTR other-host.company.com.
While the above may have worked under BIND 8, I get the impression
that under BIND 9.3 and 9.4 that you really need to have separate zone
files.
Merton Campbell Crockett
m.c.crockett at roadrunner.com
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