Failed to up BIND-9.1.3 on Solaris 8

[Brad Knowles]

At 5:35 PM +0800 8/10/01, amran at isp.time.net.my wrote:

>  I'm having problem to up BIND-9.1.3 on Solaris 8.
>  Attached herewith is the error log:
>
>  Aug 10 17:14:45 ikanmasin /usr/local/sbin/named[794]: [ID 866145
>  daemon.notice] starting BIND 9.1.3
>  Aug 10 17:14:45 ikanmasin /usr/local/sbin/named[794]: [ID 866145
>  daemon.error] /etc/named.conf:744: first statement in a zone definition must
>  be 'type'
>  Aug 10 17:14:45 ikanmasin /usr/local/sbin/named[794]: [ID 866145
>  daemon.crit] loading configuration: failure
>  Aug 10 17:14:45 ikanmasin /usr/local/sbin/named[794]: [ID 866145
>  daemon.crit] exiting (due to fatal error)

	Sounds pretty straight-forward to me.  You have to have the "type 
master;" line as the first thing in the zone definition, which you 
can then follow with the "file..." definition.

>  For your information, we manage to install the software successfully and
>  just copied
>  the previous "named.conf" file to /etc and all zone files to /var/named
>  directory.

	Excellent!  Glad to hear it!

-- 
Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles at skynet.be>

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