SOA and zone tops?
Mark_Andrews at isc.org
Mark_Andrews at isc.org
Wed Sep 5 06:54:57 UTC 2001
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm running BIND 8.2.3 on a FreeBSD box, and I'm having a few problems. My
> machine is quite happily running name services for it's own domain without
> a hitch, but I when I tried to start it running a second domain, the
> trouble starts. I've created separate zone files for my domains, and they
> look like they are references correctly in my named.conf file, but when I
> restart my nameserver, I get a couple of error messages back, being:
>
> named[157]: db.foo.net:2: SOA for "foo.net" not at zone top "foo.net"
>
> and then...
>
> named[157]: Zone "foo.net" (file db.foo.net): no NS RRs found at zone top
>
> which then results in the zone being rejected. Now, I gather that the
> second error message is a result of the lack of SOA definition for
> foo.net. What I'm wondering is why do I get the strange SOA message?
>
> This is what I my db file looks like:
>
> $TTL 86400
> foo.net. IN SOA ns.bar.com hostmaster.ns.bar.com (
> 2001090522
> 86400
> 7200
> 8640000
> 86400 )
> foo.net. IN NS ns.bar.com
> IN NS ns.woo.org
>
> foo.net. IN MX 10 mail.bar.com
>
>
> okay, can someone give me a *hint* as to what I'm doing wrong? It's
> driving me nuts!
First try carefully reading the error message.
Second if you are going to post error messages don't doctor
them.
Mark
>
> TIA
>
> Ian
>
>
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