Ignoring out-of-zone data

[Kevin Darcy]

This problem is impossible to diagnose because you have "anonymized" the data.
Post *real* data if you want help. The IP addresses aren't really important to
this particular problem, but the names *are* important, since names determine
what zone a particular record belongs to.


- Kevin

Danny Lai wrote:

> Hi
>
> I am using BIND 9.1.1 to operate my dns server.  Recently, when I try to run
> named-checkzone to verify my zone record, I always get the following output:
>
> dns_master_load: zone.com:20: ignoring out-of-zone data
>
> dns_master_load: zone.com:21: ignoring out-of-zone data
>
> dns_master_load: zone.com:22: ignoring out-of-zone data
>
> dns_master_load: zone.com:23: ignoring out-of-zone data
>
> dns_master_load: zone.com:24: ignoring out-of-zone data
>
> dns_master_load: zone.com:25: ignoring out-of-zone data
>
> dns_master_load: zone.com:26: ignoring out-of-zone data
>
> ..
>
> dns_master_load: zone.com:397: ignoring out-of-zone data
>
> dns_zone_load: zone zone.com/IN: could not find NS and/or SOA records
>
> dns_zone_load: zone zone.com/IN: has 0 SOA records
>
> dns_zone_load: zone zone.com/IN: no NS records
>
> However, when I try to restart my zone file, BIND start up successfully. I
> am not sure what does this "Ignoring out-of-zone" message mean and what's
> wrong with my zone file? Can someone help please?
>
> Here is my zone file:
>
> $ORIGIN .
>
> $TTL 3600 ; 1 hour
>
> zon.com IN SOA pridns.zone.com. root.zone.com. (
>
>                     2001042701 ; serial
>
>                     7200 ; refresh (2 hours)
>
>                     3600 ; retry (1 hour)
>
>                     3600 ; expire (1 hour)
>
>                     3600 ; minimum (1 hour)
>
>                     )
>
>                         NS ns1.zone.com.
>
>                         NS ns2.zone.com.
>
>                         NS ns3.zone.com.
>
>                         A x.x.x.x
>
>                         MX 10 mail1.zone.com.
>
>                         MX 20 mail2.zone.com.
>
>                         MX 30 mail3.zone.com.
>
>                         MX 40 mail4.zone.com.
>
>                         MX 40 mail5.zone.com.
>
> $ORIGIN mediaring.com.
>
> Host1     A     x.x.x.x
>
> Host2     A     x.x.x.x
>
> Host3     A     x.x.x.x
>
> ns1        A    x.x.x.x
>
> ns2    A    x.x.x.x
>
> ns3    A    x.x.x.x
>
> mail1       A    x.x.x.x
>
> mail2    A    x.x.x.x
>
> mail3    A    x.x.x.x
>
> mail4    A    x.x.x.x
>
> mail5    A    x.x.x.x