out of zone NS records

Lee, Elizabeth Elizabeth.Lee.contractor at fnmoc.navy.mil
Wed Mar 14 00:12:31 UTC 2001


I have been tasked with bringing a group of nameservers into a standard
alignment respective to their functions.  These servers were all running
BIND 8.1.1, 8.1.2 or 4.9.3, and had enjoyed little attention over the years.
Though I have many years of UNIX administration experience, I am a BIND/DNS
novice; be aware that I am RTFM (including the O'Reilly book), poring over
RFCs and still recovering from the flames I suffered LAST time I asked a
question in this group.  You guys are all really brilliant, but you do not
suffer newbies gracefully.  Be that as it may, I HUMBLY and RESPECTFULLY
request your guidance on a small issue:

Solaris 2.6 on a SPARCstation 10, running what appears to be 4.9.3 
	(the binary said 8.1, but it was a different size than the 8.1
binary running elsewhere)

After the first attempt at running 8.2.3, the errors made it clear that the
config and db files were flawed.
I have found and corrected most of the errors except for these NS records in
each zone file:

osc.uscg.mil.   IN      NS      netman.osc.uscg.mil.
osc.uscg.mil.   IN      NS      sarpro1.osc.uscg.mil.
osc.uscg.mil.   IN      NS      sarpro2.osc.uscg.mil.
;
netman.osc.uscg.mil.    IN      A       152.119.204.204 
sarpro1.osc.uscg.mil.   IN      A       152.119.204.221 
sarpro2.osc.uscg.mil.   IN      A       152.119.204.222

which generate the following errors:

Mar  2 17:37:22 ddnmail named[14094]: fnoc.navy.mil:92: data "osc.uscg.mil"
outside zone "fnoc.navy.mil" (ignored)
Mar  2 17:37:22 ddnmail named[14094]: fnoc.navy.mil:93: data "osc.uscg.mil"
outside zone "fnoc.navy.mil" (ignored)
Mar  2 17:37:22 ddnmail named[14094]: fnoc.navy.mil:94: data "osc.uscg.mil"
outside zone "fnoc.navy.mil" (ignored)
Mar  2 17:37:22 ddnmail named[14094]: fnoc.navy.mil:96: data
"netman.osc.uscg.mil" outside zone "fnoc.navy.mil" (ignored)
Mar  2 17:37:22 ddnmail named[14094]: fnoc.navy.mil:97: data
"sarpro1.osc.uscg.mil" outside zone "fnoc.navy.mil" (ignored)
Mar  2 17:37:22 ddnmail named[14094]: fnoc.navy.mil:98: data
"sarpro2.osc.uscg.mil" outside zone "fnoc.navy.mil" (ignored)
Mar  2 17:37:22 ddnmail named[14094]: fnmoc.navy.mil:93: data "osc.uscg.mil"
outside zone "fnmoc.navy.mil" (ignored)
Mar  2 17:37:22 ddnmail named[14094]: fnmoc.navy.mil:94: data "osc.uscg.mil"
outside zone "fnmoc.navy.mil" (ignored)
Mar  2 17:37:22 ddnmail named[14094]: fnmoc.navy.mil:95: data "osc.uscg.mil"
outside zone "fnmoc.navy.mil" (ignored)
Mar  2 17:37:22 ddnmail named[14094]: fnmoc.navy.mil:97: data
"netman.osc.uscg.mil" outside zone "fnmoc.navy.mil" (ignored)
Mar  2 17:37:22 ddnmail named[14094]: fnmoc.navy.mil:98: data
"sarpro1.osc.uscg.mil" outside zone "fnmoc.navy.mil" (ignored)
Mar  2 17:37:22 ddnmail named[14094]: fnmoc.navy.mil:99: data
"sarpro2.osc.uscg.mil" outside zone "fnmoc.navy.mil" (ignored)

It is clear that these records are out of our zone
(fnmoc.navy.mil/fnoc.navy.mil), but is there any other way that I can
include them as entries in a zone file without major changes to my current
zone configuration?  I think not, but I would like a confirmation.  Again,
thank you.

(Elizabeth) Annette Lee
FNMOC, Monterey CA
(831) 656-4426




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