Problem with DDNS and Bind 8.1.2

[Ken McCord]

Well, I've been able to fix the problem with the slave servers receiving
updates by adding 'localhost' to the allow-updates line.  I still am
getting the 'update: error: error processing...' messages though.

Thanks again,

Ken McCord



Ken McCord wrote:
> 
> Running into a problem running Bind 8.1.2, DHCP 2.0b1pl6 (yes, I know
> it's old, but there's no update without moving to a 2.2.x kernel+other
> work) and the DHCP-DNS perl scripts.  I have two DNS servers (a master @
> .14 and a slave @ .15) also acting as DHCP servers on a private class c
> network.  They both serve a range of 100 ip addresses (from .51 to .150
> and from .151 to .250, so there is no overlap).  The following messages
> are appearing in the logs on the master DNS server, and the files on the
> slave server are not getting updated as the master files are changed.
> 
> Any help would be *greatly* appreciated.
> 
> TIA,
> 
> Ken McCord
> 
> 24-Sep-1999 21:19:59.784 update: error: error processing update packet
> id 37110 from [192.168.1.15].1098
> 24-Sep-1999 21:19:59.809 update: error: error processing update packet
> id 37878 from [192.168.1.15].1101
> 24-Sep-1999 21:19:59.945 update: error: error processing update packet
> id 40182 from [192.168.1.15].1110
> 24-Sep-1999 21:19:59.968 update: error: error processing update packet
> id 40950 from [192.168.1.15].1113
> 24-Sep-1999 21:20:00.099 update: error: error processing update packet
> id 43254 from [192.168.1.15].1122
> 24-Sep-1999 21:20:00.124 update: error: error processing update packet
> id 44022 from [192.168.1.15].1125
> 24-Sep-1999 21:20:00.872 update: error: error processing update packet
> id 46326 from [192.168.1.15].1134
> 24-Sep-1999 21:20:01.012 update: error: error processing update packet
> id 47094 from [192.168.1.15].1138
> 
> Here is a copy of the master's /etc/named.conf file:
> 
> // generated by named-bootconf.pl
> 
> options {
>         directory "/var/named";
>         /*
>          * If there is a firewall between you and nameservers you want
>          * to talk to, you might need to uncomment the query-source
>          * directive below.  Previous versions of BIND always asked
>          * questions using port 53, but BIND 8.1 uses an unprivileged
>          * port by default.
>          */
>         // query-source address * port 53;
> };
> 
> //
> // a caching only nameserver config
> //
> logging {
>         channel update_debug {
>                 file "/var/log/named/update.debug";
>                 severity debug 3;
>                 print-category yes;
>                 print-severity yes;
>                 print-time yes;
>         };
>         category update {update_debug;};
> };
> 
> zone "ac-coin.com" {
>         type master;
>         file "/etc/zone/ac-coin.com";
>         notify yes;
>         also-notify { 192.168.1.15; };
>         allow-update { 192.168.1.14;192.168.1.15; };
> };
> 
> zone "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa" {
>         type master;
>         file "/etc/zone/127.0.0";
> };
> 
> zone "1.168.192.in-addr.arpa" {
>         type master;
>         file "/etc/zone/192.168.1";
>         notify yes;
>         also-notify { 192.168.1.15; };
>         allow-update { 192.168.1.14;192.168.1.15; };
> };
> 
> zone "." {
>         type hint;
>         file "named.root";
> };
> 
> Here is a copy of the slave's /etc/named.conf file:
> 
> // generated by named-bootconf.pl
> 
> options {
>         directory "/var/named";
>         /*
>          * If there is a firewall between you and nameservers you want
>          * to talk to, you might need to uncomment the query-source
>          * directive below.  Previous versions of BIND always asked
>          * questions using port 53, but BIND 8.1 uses an unprivileged
>          * port by default.
>          */
>         // query-source address * port 53;
> };
> 
> //
> // a caching only nameserver config
> //
> zone "ac-coin.com" {
>         type slave;
>         file "/etc/zone/ac-coin.com";
>         masters {
>                 192.168.1.14;
>         };
> };
> 
> zone "1.168.192.in-addr.arpa" {
>         type slave;
>         file "/etc/zone/192.168.1";
>         masters {
>                 192.168.1.14;
>         };
> };
> 
> zone "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa" {
>         type master;
>         file "/etc/zone/127.0.0";
> };
> 
> zone "." {
>         type hint;
>         file "named.root";
> };