problem with bind

[David Dowdle]

It's complaining about other errors than the serial number.  It SAYS it's
missing nameserver (NS) records, though  I've seen this error for other
reasons.
Note that line 2 gives the FILE name,  for the zone, and line 3 gives the
serial number for the zone.

Your file should read somthing like this:

@ IN SOA  machine.domain.com hostmaster.domain.com (
                         99080301
                21600           ; Refresh (21600=6 hours)
                7200            ; Retry (7200=2 hrs)
                2592000         ; Expire (2592000=30 days)
                3600 )          ; Minumum TTL (3600=1 hr)

@  IN NS   machine.domain.com

1  IN PTR localhost.




notes:
machine.domain.com should be the name of YOUR machine
hostmaster.domain.com should be email addres that goes to YOU
note the period after localhost





Samuele Tonon wrote:

> hi,
> i'm using bind 8.1.2 wich comes with debian distro.
> i edited it to act as a cache-only nameserver .
> My problem is that strange serial in my 0.0.127.in-addr.arpa zone , which i
> don't know how to set .
> on the manual it says that is a date but i don't know what kind of date it
> must be .
>
> hers's the error when i load it :
> Aug  3 14:23:43 THRUNXS named[302]: cache zone "" (IN) loaded (serial 0)
> Aug  3 14:23:43 THRUNXS named[302]: Zone "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa" (file
> primary/named.rev-local): no NS RRs found at zone top
> Aug  3 14:23:43 THRUNXS named[302]: master zone "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa" (IN)
> rejected due to errors (serial 99080300)
>
> but an ls -l  to the file named.rev-local is this:
> 224 Aug  3 14:23 /var/named/primary/named.rev-local
>
> so what serial should i put ?
>
> thanks
>
> --
>
> Samuele Tonon  <tonon at cs.unibo.it>
> Undergraduate Student  of  Computer Science at  University of Bologna, Italy
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