Rejected due to errors (serial 27)

[Mark.Andrews at nominum.com]

> 
> I'm getting an error in my log files stating...
> 
> "master zone whatever.com" (IN) rejected due to errors (serial 27)
> 
> ...this is the zone file:
> 
> $TTL 3600
> @	IN	SOA  ournameserver.somedomain.com. techsupport.somedomain.com. 
> (
> 			27          ; serial number
> 			3600        ; refresh
> 			600         ; retry
> 			604800      ; expire
> 			3600      ) ; minimum TTL
> @			IN	NS	ournamserver.somedomain.com.
> @			IN	NS	ournameserver2.somedomain.com.
> @			IN	CNAME	www.somedomainname.com.
> *			IN	CNAME	www.somedomainname.com.
> 
> 
> What's odd is that the CNAME forwarding works just fine.  The server does
> NOT report back as authoritative for the domain though.  Anyone know why
> this is happening?

	Yes, because you cannot have CNAMES and other data.  If you read
	RFC 1034/1035 and look at how you process cached CNAMES you will
	realise that this configuration can never work which is why we
	detect it and complain.

	Mark
> 
> According to the bind common errors list at
> www.acmebw.com/askmrdns/bind-messages.htm this would indicate a syntax
> error.  I checked the zone files for strange invisible characters, but
> everything seems fine.  Am I not seeing some blaring syntax error here?
> 
> The entry in the named.conf is:
> 
> zone "somedomain.net" in {
>   type master;
>   file "master/somedomain.net.dns";
> };
> 
> -Riskable
> "I have a license to kill -9"
> 
> 
> 
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Mark Andrews, Nominum Inc.
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