Slave Servers Return SERVFAIL

[Stephane Bortzmeyer]

On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 08:25:13PM -0800,
 Merton Campbell Crockett <m.c.crockett at roadrunner.com> wrote 
 a message of 51 lines which said:

> My colleagues decided to do away with the delegations and separate
> zone files and placed all the PTR records in a single zone file.

This is mostly a matter of taste. It will work as well.

> The slaves, however, always return a SERVFAIL.

Check their logs, you will find the explanation.

> 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.

No, I do not think so.