Problem with zone files on Bind 8.30

[Mark_Andrews at isc.org]

> 
> I have problem with my zone file on my FreeBSD 4.4 sporting BIND v8.30.
> 
> This is my domain.com zone file. (Hostname of the machine ns1)
> 
>  $TTL 3600
>    
>      @   IN SOA ns1.domain.com. root.domain.com. (

	Indenting and the lack of it is critical to the interpretation of
	a zone file.  An indented record inherits the previous name in the
	zone file.  There should be no white-space before the @.
e.g.

$TTL 3600
@	IN	SOA ....

> 
> Feb  1 16:55:23 ns1 named[916]: Zone "domain.com" (file domain.com): No defa
> ult TTL ($TTL <value>) set, using SOA minimum instead
> Feb  1 16:55:23 ns1 named[916]: domain.com:3: Database error near (@)
> Feb  1 16:55:23 ns1 named[916]: domain.com:5: Database error near ()
> Feb  1 16:55:23 ns1 named[916]: domain.com:6: Database error near ()
> Feb  1 16:55:23 ns1 named[916]: domain.com:7: Database error near ()
> Feb  1 16:55:23 ns1 named[916]: domain.com:8: Database error near ()
> Feb  1 16:55:23 ns1 named[916]: domain.com:9: Database error near ())
> Feb  1 16:55:23 ns1 named[916]: domain.com:12: Database error near (@)
> Feb  1 16:55:23 ns1 named[916]: domain.com:16: Database error near (localhos
> t)
> Feb  1 16:55:23 ns1 named[916]: domain.com:23: Database error near (ns1)
> Feb  1 16:55:23 ns1 named[916]: domain.com:26: Database error near (@)
> Feb  1 16:55:23 ns1 named[916]: domain.com:29: Database error near (www)
> Feb  1 16:55:23 ns1 named[916]: limehost.com:32: Database error near (@)
> Feb  1 16:55:23 ns1 named[916]: Zone "domain.com" (file domain.com): no SOA 
> RR found
> Feb  1 16:55:23 ns1 named[916]: master zone "domain.com" (IN) rejected due t
> o errors (serial 0)

> Feb  1 16:55:23 ns1 named[916]: /etc/namedb/named.conf:119: cannot redefine 
> zone '.' class IN

	You have the "." zone twice in named.conf.

	Mark

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