Bind 9 Error Message

[Tim Maestas]

	Zones that you are master for do not have a 
	masters {} clause in them.  Only zones that
	you are slave for.

-Tim



On Sun, 17 Jun 2001, ViKinG wrote:

> Hi all,
> I'm trying to add a master zone to a slave DNS server (all its zones are
> slave) and I get this error message.  I'm pasting here a named.conf fragment
> in the hopes that it is helpful.  I searched on the net looking for
> "master_ips" and the like, and couldn't find anything.
> 
> jolie# cat /etc/named.conf |more
> options                 {
>         directory "/var/named/";
>         pid-file "/var/run/named.pid";
>         dump-file "/var/named/dumpdb";
>         statistics-file "/var/named/statistics.log";
>         files unlimited;
>         listen-on {127.0.0.1; 10.2.8.77; };
>         auth-nxdomain no;
>         allow-transfer { 127.0.0.1; 10.2.8.77; };
>         coresize 1;
>         transfer-format one-answer;
>         forward first;
>         forwarders {
>                 192.216.x.1;
>                 192.216.x.2;
>                 };
> };
> 
> //this is an internal "fake" zone I'm trying to add
> zone  "masterzone.joe" {
>         type master;
>         file "master/db.masterzone.joe";
>         masters { 10.2.8.77;};
> };
> 
> //there are more like this, this is a "good" zone we use here
> zone    "whatever.com" {
>         type slave;
>         file "slave/db.whatever.com";
>         masters { 10.1.4.1;};
> };
> 
> jolie# tail -f /var/adm/messages
> Jun 16 15:11:38 jolie /usr/local/sbin/named[24481]: [ID 866145
> daemon.notice] starting BIND 9.1.1rc1 -c /etc/named.conf
> Jun 16 15:11:38 jolie /usr/local/sbin/named[24481]: [ID 866145 daemon.crit]
> master zones do not have a master_ips field
> Jun 16 15:11:38 jolie /usr/local/sbin/named[24481]: [ID 866145
> daemon.warning] /etc/named.conf:47: failed to set zone masters ips
> Jun 16 15:11:38 jolie /usr/local/sbin/named[24481]: [ID 866145 daemon.crit]
> loading configuration: failure
> Jun 16 15:11:38 jolie /usr/local/sbin/named[24481]: [ID 866145 daemon.crit]
> exiting (due to fatal error)
> 
> Thank you!
> 
>