Help: RE: DNS does not report correct...

[Barry Margolin]

In article <8d7onu$fi3$1 at newsfeed.norlight.net>,
Bret Hedrington <bhedrington at powersentry.com> wrote:
>I posted a problem earlier and poeple are asking for my named.conf.
>Here is the x.db file.
>
>@ IN SOA x.com. mail.x.com. (
> 20000414 ; Serial Number
> 3600  ; Refresh
> 300   ; Retry
> 172800  ; Expiry
> 43200 )  ; Minimum
>
> IN NS   x.com.
> IN NS   207.170.3.6
> IN NS   207.170.7.6
>
> IN MX   mail.x.com
>
> IN HINFO  Pentium/166 LINUX
>
> mas90.x.com. IN A 207.x.x.182 ;
> mail.x.com. IN A 207.x.x.177 ;
>
> ftp IN CNAME mail.powersentry.com.

The last three lines should *not* be indented.  When you indent a line,
you're indicating that it's an additional record for the name on the
previous line.  When you're starting a new hostname you have to put the
name at the left margin.

>Here is the reverse.
>
>@ IN SOA x.com. mail.x.com. (
> 20000414 ;
> 3600  ;
> 300   ;
> 172800  ;
> 43200 )
>
> IN NS x.com.
> IN NS 207.65.3.6.
> IN NS 207.65.7.6.
>
> 177 IN PTR mail.powersentry.com.
> 182 IN PTR  mas90.powersentry.com.

Same problem with the last two lines.

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