upgrading to 8.2.3 errors (i already RTFM)

[Mark.Andrews at nominum.com]

> 
> In attempt to help a friend's business upgrade to 8.2.3 from 8.2.2, I am gett
> ing
> some errors which are contradictory to documentation and all the archived
> messages and FAQs I have read.  Examples of named.conf and some zone files wi
> ll
> be at the bottom of this message.
> Essentially, everything was running fine until I ran the 8.2.3 named.  Here i
> s
> an example of the error generated for db.127.0.0:
> >part of syslog----------------------------------------
> Feb  6 11:29:59 pwpa named[13189]: db.127.0.0: WARNING SOA expire value is le
> ss
> than SOA refresh+retry (2 < 2+1)
> Feb  6 11:29:59 pwpa named[13189]: db.127.0.0:4: Database error near ()
> Feb  6 11:29:59 pwpa named[13189]: db.127.0.0:5: Database error near ()
> Feb  6 11:29:59 pwpa named[13189]: db.127.0.0: Line 6: Unknown type: ).
> Feb  6 11:29:59 pwpa named[13189]: db.127.0.0:6: Database error near ())
> >------------------------------------------------------
> The same errors were generated for all the other zones, which have the same
> parenthetical use as db.127.0.0 (which is included at the bottom of this
> message).
> I knew when I started using BIND and read O'Reilly DNS and BIND that the firs
> t
> parenthesis must be on the same line as the SOA.  I have maintained that
> structure, and although 8.2.2 never complained, 8.2.3 will not load a single
> zone.
> 
> Why does 8.2.3 give error messages as if the zones were not adhering to the n
> ew,
> more strict parenthetical use?
> 

	Perhaps because SOA records have seven (7) fields.  The record
	below has six (6).

	Mark

> Thanks for all the helpful archived messages
> 
> Peter Anderson
> 
> >db.127.0.0. ------------------------------------------------
> 
> @        IN SOA root.nw. (
> 20010206
> 10800
> 3600
> 604800
> 86400 )
> ;
>                 NS  127.0.0.1.
> 
> 1               PTR localhost.
> 
> >-------------------------------------------------------------
> >part of named.conf ------------------------------------------
> options {
>         directory "/var/named";
> };
> 
> logging {
>         category lame-servers { null; };
>         category cname { null; };
> };
> 
> zone "." in {
>         type hint;
>         file "db.cache";
> };
> 
> zone "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa" in {
>         type master;
>         file "db.127.0.0";
> };
> >--------------------------------------------------------------
> 
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Mark Andrews, Nominum Inc.
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