erroe when loading

[Roy Arends]

On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Support wrote:

> can anyone help with this message
> 
> Mar 27 11:16:07 bonnie named[5301]: named shutting down
> Mar 27 11:16:07 bonnie named[5301]: USAGE 985688167 985687714
> CPU=0.37u/0.07s CHILDCPU=0.02u/0.01s
> Mar 27 11:16:07 bonnie named[5301]: NSTATS 985688167 985687714 A=9 CNAME=2
> SOA=147 PTR=70 MX=2
> Mar 27 11:16:07 bonnie named[5301]: XSTATS 985688167 985687714 RR=205 RNXD=1
> RFwdR=29 RDupR=0 RFail=8 RFErr=0 RErr=2 RAXFR=0 RLame=0 ROpts=0 SSysQ=167
> SAns=203 SFwdQ=18 SDupQ=16 SErr=0 RQ=231 RIQ=0 RFwdQ=0 RDupQ=0 RTCP=10
> SFwdR=29 SFail=0 SFErr=0 SNaAns=85 SNXD=0
> Mar 27 11:16:17 bonnie usr/local/sbin/named[5326]: starting BIND 9.1.1rc6
> Mar 27 11:16:17 bonnie usr/local/sbin/named[5326]: using 1 CPU
> Mar 27 11:16:17 bonnie usr/local/sbin/named[5328]: loading configuration
> from '/etc/named.conf'
> Mar 27 11:16:17 bonnie usr/local/sbin/named[5328]:
> /etc/named.conf.zones:698: parse error near ;
> Mar 27 11:16:17 bonnie usr/local/sbin/named[5328]: loading configuration:
> failure
> Mar 27 11:16:17 bonnie usr/local/sbin/named[5328]: exiting (due to fatal
> error)
> 
> I have checked the archive and see no mention of above error

You have a syntax error in your /etc/named.conf.zones on line 698 near
the ";" character.

Before you start named, you can check your config file with
named-checkconf /etc/named.conf.zones

This gives you the same error, but its just a sanity check on the
named.conf.zones file. 

If you give us a few lines around line 698, we might be able to tell you
what the error is.

Regards
Roy Arends
Nominum