Fw: allow-recursion broke my nameserver

[Mark.Andrews at nominum.com]

	The man page is wrong.

	Mark

> 
> 
> Hello:
> 
> Here an excerpt out of the named.conf man page:
> --snip--
> allow-recursion
>          Specifies which hosts are allowed to ask recursive questions.
>          allow-recursion may also be specified in the zone statement, in
>          which case it overrides the options allow-recursion statement.
>          If not speci­fied, the default is to allow recursive queries from
>          all hosts.
> --snap--
> 
> Here an excerpt out of my named.conf file:
> --snip--
> zone "brauchmer.net"
>                         {allow-query {any;}; allow-recursion {any;};
>                         type slave;
>                         masters {212.223.64.114;};
>                         file "slave/brauchmer.net.2nd";
>                         notify yes; };
> --snap--
> 
> Here an excerpt out of my message log:
> --snip--
> Sep 11 01:52:39 shredder named[106]: reloading nameserver
> Sep 11 01:52:39 shredder named[106]: /etc/named.conf:118: syntax error near
>                                      allow-recursion
> Sep 11 01:52:39 shredder named[106]: /etc/named.conf:118: syntax error near
>                                      allow-recursion
> Sep 11 01:52:39 shredder named[106]: no type specified for zone
>                                      'brauchmer.net'
> Sep 11 01:52:39 shredder named[106]: zone 'brauchmer.net' did not validate,
>                                      skipping
> Sep 11 01:52:39 shredder named[106]: /etc/named.conf:119: syntax error near
>                                      type
> Sep 11 01:52:39 shredder named[106]: /etc/named.conf:119: syntax error near
>                                      type
> Sep 11 01:52:39 shredder named[106]: Forwarding source address is
>                                      [0.0.0.0].1302
> Sep 11 01:52:39 shredder named[106]: Ready to answer queries.
> --snap--
> 
> So, what wrong have i done?
> 
> Robert
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