basic setup question

[Kevin Darcy]

First of all, why are you trying to load a manually-created zone file as a
"slave" zone? Is this related to your other post about zone transfers
breaking? If it's a temporary workaround, define the zone as "master".
Otherwise this file could be overwritten. You can always change it back to
"slave" when zone transfers work again. Other nameservers don't care whether
you are "master" or "slave", only that you are authoritative for the zone.

Your main problem is that the opening parenthesis needs to be on the first line
of the SOA record.

If you're loading the zone as "remax-cahi.com", then the owner name of the
SOA record should be "@", or you need something above it in the zone file (that
"something" could be an $ORIGIN directive, if you want).

By the way, I don't think you really want your negative caching TTL (the last
field of the SOA) to be 5 seconds. For later versions of BIND, put a
$TTL directive at the top of your master files to establish the default TTL,
e.g. "$TTL 1d". For security reasons, you should be running BIND 8.2.3 or
above, and it will complain if that $TTL directive isn't there.


- Kevin

Scott.Wiseman wrote:

> remax-cahi      IN SOA remax.remaxhost.com. webmaster.remaxhost.com.
>                         (
>                         2001032100      ; Serial(yyyymmddnn)
>                         10800           ; Refresh(3h)
>                         1800            ; Retry(1h)
>                         604800          ; Expire(1wk)
>                         5               ; Min TTL(1d)
>                         )
> ; Name Servers
>                 IN NS   remax.remaxhost.com.
>                 IN A    216.184.208.175
>                 IN MX   10 mail.realestatenet.com.
> ; Host Names
> $ORIGIN remax-cahi.com
> localhost       IN A    127.0.0.1
> www             IN A    216.184.208.175
> mail            IN A    207.217.21.194
> ; associate subdomains
>
> any thing wrong with this???
>
> why am I getting these errors:
> 21-Mar-2001 17:23:42.000 load: info: hint zone "" (IN) loaded (serial 0)
> 21-Mar-2001 17:23:42.000 load: info: 127.0.0.db:15: data "localhost" outside
> zone "0.0.127.IN-ADDR.ARPA" (ignored)
> 21-Mar-2001 17:23:42.000 load: info: master zone "0.0.127.IN-ADDR.ARPA" (IN)
> loaded (serial 2000061301)
> 21-Mar-2001 17:23:42.000 load: notice: secondary/remax-cahi.db:1: Database
> error near ()
> 21-Mar-2001 17:23:42.000 load: notice: secondary/remax-cahi.db:2: Database
> error near ()
> 21-Mar-2001 17:23:42.000 load: notice: secondary/remax-cahi.db:3: Database
> error near ()
> 21-Mar-2001 17:23:42.000 load: notice: secondary/remax-cahi.db:4: Database
> error near ()
> 21-Mar-2001 17:23:42.000 load: info: secondary/remax-cahi.db: Line 5:
> Unknown type: .
> 21-Mar-2001 17:23:42.000 load: notice: secondary/remax-cahi.db:5: Database
> error near ()
> 21-Mar-2001 17:23:42.000 load: info: secondary/remax-cahi.db: Line 6:
> Unknown type: .
> 21-Mar-2001 17:23:42.000 load: notice: secondary/remax-cahi.db:6: Database
> error near ()
> 21-Mar-2001 17:23:42.000 load: info: secondary/remax-cahi.db: Line 6:
> Unknown type: .
> 21-Mar-2001 17:23:42.000 load: notice: secondary/remax-cahi.db:6: Database
> error near ()
> 21-Mar-2001 17:23:42.000 load: notice: secondary/remax-cahi.db:6: Database
> error near ()
> 21-Mar-2001 17:23:42.000 load: info: secondary/remax-cahi.db: Line 7:
> Unknown type: .
> 21-Mar-2001 17:23:42.000 load: notice: secondary/remax-cahi.db:7: Database
> error near ()
> 21-Mar-2001 17:23:42.000 load: info: secondary/remax-cahi.db: Line 7:
> Unknown type: .
> 21-Mar-2001 17:23:42.000 load: notice: secondary/remax-cahi.db:7: Database
> error near ()
> 21-Mar-2001 17:23:42.000 load: info: secondary/remax-cahi.db: Line 7:
> Unknown type: .
> 21-Mar-2001 17:23:42.000 load: notice: secondary/remax-cahi.db:7: Database
> error near ()
> 21-Mar-2001 17:23:42.000 load: info: secondary/remax-cahi.db: Line 8:
> Unknown type: .
> 21-Mar-2001 17:23:42.000 load: notice: secondary/remax-cahi.db:8: Database
> error near ()
> 21-Mar-2001 17:23:42.000 load: info: secondary/remax-cahi.db: Line 8:
> Unknown type: .
> 21-Mar-2001 17:23:42.000 load: notice: secondary/remax-cahi.db:8: Database
> error near ()
> 21-Mar-2001 17:23:42.000 load: info: secondary/remax-cahi.db: Line 9:
> Unknown type: .
> 21-Mar-2001 17:23:42.000 load: notice: secondary/remax-cahi.db:9: Database
> error near ()
> 21-Mar-2001 17:23:42.000 load: info: secondary/remax-cahi.db: Line 9:
> Unknown type: .
> 21-Mar-2001 17:23:42.000 load: notice: secondary/remax-cahi.db:9: Database
> error near ()
> 21-Mar-2001 17:23:42.000 load: info: secondary/remax-cahi.db: Line 10:
> Unknown type: .
> 21-Mar-2001 17:23:42.000 load: notice: secondary/remax-cahi.db:10: Database
> error near ()
> 21-Mar-2001 17:23:42.000 load: info: secondary/remax-cahi.db: Line 10:
> Unknown type: .
> 21-Mar-2001 17:23:42.000 load: notice: secondary/remax-cahi.db:10: Database
> error near ()
> 21-Mar-2001 17:23:42.000 load: info: secondary/remax-cahi.db: Line 11:
> Unknown type: .
> 21-Mar-2001 17:23:42.000 load: notice: secondary/remax-cahi.db:11: Database
> error near ()
> 21-Mar-2001 17:23:42.000 load: notice: secondary/remax-cahi.db:12: Database
> error near ()
> 21-Mar-2001 17:23:42.000 load: info: secondary/remax-cahi.db: Line 13:
> Unknown type: .
> 21-Mar-2001 17:23:42.000 load: notice: secondary/remax-cahi.db:13: Database
> error near ()
> 21-Mar-2001 17:23:42.000 load: info: secondary/remax-cahi.db: Line 13:
> Unknown type: .
> 21-Mar-2001 17:23:42.000 load: notice: secondary/remax-cahi.db:13: Database
> error near ()
> 21-Mar-2001 17:23:42.000 load: info: secondary/remax-cahi.db: Line 14:
> Unknown type: .
> 21-Mar-2001 17:23:42.000 load: notice: secondary/remax-cahi.db:14: Database
> error near ()
> 21-Mar-2001 17:23:42.000 load: info: secondary/remax-cahi.db: Line 14:
> Unknown type: .
> 21-Mar-2001 17:23:42.000 load: notice: secondary/remax-cahi.db:14: Database
> error near ()
> 21-Mar-2001 17:23:42.000 load: info: secondary/remax-cahi.db: Line 15:
> Unknown type: .
> 21-Mar-2001 17:23:42.000 load: notice: secondary/remax-cahi.db:15: Database
> error near ()
> 21-Mar-2001 17:23:42.000 load: info: secondary/remax-cahi.db: Line 15:
> Unknown type: .
> 21-Mar-2001 17:23:42.000 load: notice: secondary/remax-cahi.db:15: Database
> error near ()
> 21-Mar-2001 17:23:42.000 load: notice: secondary/remax-cahi.db:16: Database
> error near ()
> 21-Mar-2001 17:23:42.000 load: notice: secondary/remax-cahi.db:17: Database
> error near ()
> 21-Mar-2001 17:23:42.000 load: warning: Zone "remax-cahi.com" (file
> secondary/remax-cahi.db): no SOA RR found
> 21-Mar-2001 17:23:42.000 load: warning: slave zone "remax-cahi.com" (IN)
> rejected due to errors (serial 0)