NEWBIE: Problems with Granitecanyon

[Fred Viles]

[posted and mailed]

d99em at efd.lth.se (Erik Montnemery) wrote in 
<00a701bfd099$6c7e6660$0200a8c0 at Apdator>:

>Hi there!
>I'm trying to use granitecanyons public DNS, but somehow it wont work.
>Things were working very nice until two weeks ago or so.
>I guess I'm doing something really stupid, but i just can't figure out what
>it is.

That's not surprising, it's not obvious what the problem is.

>/Erik
>
>This is what i'm feeding granitecanyon with:
>
>subfret.com. IN NS  ns1.granitecanyon.com.
>subfret.com. IN NS  ns2.granitecanyon.com.
>
>subfret.com. IN RP  d99em.efd.lth.se. root.subfret.com.
>root.subfret.com. IN TXT  "Bjorn Hall, NIC handle: BHA194"
>
>localhost.subfret.com. IN A 127.0.0.1
>
>subfret.com. IN A 130.235.190.24
>mail.subfret.com. IN A 130.235.190.24 ;EXTREF
>www.subfret.com. IN CNAME subfret.com.
>
>*.subfret.com. IN MX 10 mail.subfret.com. ;GLOBALOK
>subfret.com. IN MX 10 mail.subfret.com.

That all looks good.

>And this is what it's spewing out in it's errorlog
>(http://soa.granitecanyon.com/ZoneRejects/subfret.com.txt)
>
>"subfret.com IN MX" points to a CNAME (mail.subfret.com)
>Database error near ()
>Sent NOTIFY for "subfret.com IN SOA" (subfret.com); 1 NS, 1 A
>approved AXFR from [209.166.62.198].2903 for "subfret.com"
>master zone "subfret.com" (IN) loaded (serial 158323753)
>master zone "subfret.com" (IN) rejected due to errors (serial 158597130)
>master zone "subfret.com" (IN) removed
>unapproved AXFR from [130.235.190.24].3568 for "subfret.com" (not
>master/slave)
>...

I *think* this output must mean that lines from two separate greps are 
being concatenated, because there is an apparent lack of chronilogical 
order.  I think the relevant line is "Database error near ()", this is 
a fatal error that would explain the zone being rejected.

Since there is nothing visible in the parens, my best guess is that your
zone data includes some non-printing control character that you can't see
in the web interface.  Try deleting all your data and re-entering it, 
perhaps using cut&paste from a text editor that you know would show any
unwanted control characters.

- Fred