Problem with using $GENERATE for reverse-lookup (PTRs)

[Mark.Andrews at nominum.com]

> 
> On Mon, 4 Sep 2000 Mark.Andrews at nominum.com wrote:
> 
> > Make each zone a seperate file and check your logs after loading.  
> > If the zone loads without error it will be transfered with the
> > generated entries.
> 
> Thing is, there are no errors in syslog during reloads, nor any errors
> in the syslog of my remote secondaries during or after AXFR completes.
> Maybe you are thinking of the elementary problem some users converting
> from BIND 4.x to BIND 8.x encounter (trying to point more than one
> zone declaration to the same filespec in named.conf)? Having soft (or
> even hard) links from one physical zonefile to many "alias" zonefiles
> seems to satisfy BIND8 that each domain has it's own zonefile and has
> been working great for the past year, for all types of records except
> $GENERATE-ed PTRs. Why would this specific type of record fail to be
> transferred to my secondaries?
> 
> Furthermore, $GENERATE used in zonefiles for other than *.in-addr.arpa
> domains seems to work properly; generated entries are visible in the
> zonefiles transferred to the secondaries, and queries for said entries
> succeed.
> 
> R

	Humour me.

	Make each zone seperate and make the $GENERATE commands only
	generate data for that zone.  It will fix the problem.

	Mark
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