Problems with bind-9.1.1rc4

[Paul Kelly]

On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Agustina Buccella wrote:

> I installed in my host linux Suse 7.0 and bind-9.1.1rc4, but I have a 
> problem when I start named. The /var/named/named.run said:
> 
> Mar 20 10:35:57.222 starting BIND 9.1.1rc4 -d 9
> Mar 20 10:35:57.595 dns_rdata_fromtext: uncoma.dom:8: near '2000': out of range
> and so on...

i have found this problem to be when you dont specify your server and
contact details in your SOA as absolute domains. ie

this bad
mydomain.com        IN SOA  mynameserver.net  root.mynameserver.net (
                                940841905  ; serial
                                28800      ; refresh (8 hours)
                                7200       ; retry (2 hours)
                                604800     ; expire (1 week)
                                86400      ; minimum (1 day)
                                )

this good.
mydomain.com        IN SOA  mynameserver.net. root.mynameserver.net. (
                                940841905  ; serial
                                28800      ; refresh (8 hours)
                                7200       ; retry (2 hours)
                                604800     ; expire (1 week)
                                86400      ; minimum (1 day)
                                )

Paul