OK, I have a head scratcher

[Kevin Darcy]

Jim Cline wrote:

> Or I am just brain dead.
> I am charged with maintaining a DNS for the community college where I work.
> My DNS covers several subdomains, the main domain is administered at our
> district office.  The are also three other campuses that run their on DNS on
> their assigned sub-domains.  We are planning to upgrade our DNS soon (within
> the next two weeks) but I have no desire to transfer the strange problems we
> have been dealing with since the new year...
>
> 1) Sometimes we can reach servers at our district and sometimes we can't
> 2) I can force zone transfers with the district master DNS with named-xfer
> but when I run named.restart I get the following errors (Note edit
> 3) the transfers among the other three campuses and us runs without a hitch.
>
>    Jan 19 16:28:25 lazarus named[26235]: starting.  named 4.9.3-REL Tue Apr
> 2 09:46:40 PST 1996
>    Jan 19 16:28:25 lazarus  root at lazarus:/export/home/maint/named
>    Jan 19 16:28:26 lazarus named[26235]: db.sec.cccd: line 6: SOA for
> "cccd.edu" not at zone top "dis.cccd.edu"
>    Jan 19 16:28:27 lazarus named[26235]: Zone "dis.cccd.edu" (file
> db.sec.cccd): no NS RRs found at zone top
>    Jan 19 16:28:28 lazarus named[26236]: zoneref: Masters for secondary zone
> "dis.cccd.edu" unreachable
>
> Like I said we are planning to upgrade the DNS to BIND version 8.12, running
> on a newer Pentium running Linux Slackware 7.  the old machine is a old 486
> running Solaris x86 and bind v4.
>
> Please help and please echo replies to my E-Mail so I don't overlook them.

db.sec.cccd appears to be munged. Are you trying to use it for both cccd.edu
and dis.cccd.edu?


- Kevin