Error Messages?

[Cricket Liu]

> Mar 24 10:28:04 dns1 named[76]: starting.  named 8.2.2-P5 Fri Mar 24
09:58:07 ES
> Mar 24 10:28:04 dns1 named[76]: hint zone "" (IN) loaded (serial 0)
> Mar 24 10:28:05 dns1 named[76]: named.local:21: data "" outside zone
> "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa" (ignored)
> Mar 24 10:28:05 dns1 named[76]: named.local:22: data "A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET"
> outside zone "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa" (ignored)
> Mar 24 10:28:05 dns1 named[76]: named.local:26: data "" outside zone
> "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa" (ignored)
> Mar 24 10:28:05 dns1 named[76]: named.local:27: data "B.ROOT-SERVERS.NET"
> outside zone "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa" (ignored)
> Mar 24 10:28:05 dns1 named[76]: named.local:31: data "" outside zone
> "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa" (ignored)
> Mar 24 10:28:05 dns1 named[76]: named.local:32: data "C.ROOT-SERVERS.NET"
> outside zone "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa" (ignored)
> Mar 24 10:28:05 dns1 named[76]: named.local:36: data "" outside zone
> "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa" (ignored)
> Mar 24 10:28:05 dns1 named[76]: named.local:37: data "D.ROOT-SERVERS.NET"
> outside zone "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa" (ignored)
> Mar 24 10:28:05 dns1 named[76]: named.local:41: data "" outside zone
> "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa" (ignored)
>
> What does the above mean and how can I correct if?

Those errors mean, "I'm expecting to load data about the zone
0.0.127.in-addr.arpa, but the records I'm seeing have nothing to
do with that zone, so I'm ignoring them."  It looks like you're
telling the name server that named.local is the zone data file for
0.0.127.in-addr.arpa, when it actually contains the root hints.

In other words, you have:

zone "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa" {
    type master;
    file "named.local";
};

when you should have

zone "." {
    type hint;
    file "named.local";
};

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