BIND 9.2 little problem

[phn at icke-reklam.ipsec.nu]

r_no at hotmail.com wrote:

> Hi gurur,
> Well ok, I'm dumb, I'm unable to start even the simpliest DB file, I
> still got an erro messages on the log file:
> Feb  8 09:06:11 darkstar named[2392]: [ID 866145 daemon.notice] starting
> BIND 9.2.0 -f
> Feb  8 09:06:11 darkstar named[2392]: [ID 866145 daemon.notice] command
> channel listening on 127.0.0.1#953
> Feb  8 09:06:11 darkstar named[2392]: [ID 866145 daemon.error]
> dns_master_load: db.127.0.0:2: unexpected end of line
> Feb  8 09:06:11 darkstar named[2392]: [ID 866145 daemon.error]
> dns_master_load: db.127.0.0:1: unexpected end of input
> Feb  8 09:06:11 darkstar named[2392]: [ID 866145 daemon.error] zone
> 0.0.127.in-addr.arpa/IN: loading master file db.127.0.0: unexpected end
> of input

Reading the log output _sometimes_ gives a clue about what's going wrong.


> here is the named.conf:
> options {
>         directory "/opt/named";
>         pid-file "/opt/named/named.pid";
>         forwarders  { 192.168.21.2;10.137.142.147; };
>         forward only;
> };

> zone "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa" in {
>         type master;
>         file "db.127.0.0";
> };

> Here is the file db.127.0.0:
> //===========================================
> // Local server zone information  (db.127.0.0)
> //===========================================
> bames.ch.       IN      SOA     darkstar.bames.ch. postmaster.bames.ch.
> (

  ^^
here is one problem. This should be the last character on the preceeding line,
not an alone character on it's own line.

You are also lacking a "$TTL 86400" as first line.



>                                 0108022002     ; Serial No.
>                                 3h   ; Refresh
>                                 1h    ; Retry
>                                 1w ; Expire
>                                 1h ) ; Minimum

> #DNS server record
>         IN      NS      darkstar.bames.ch.

> # PTR record
> 1       IN      PTR     localhost.bames.ch.


> I'm still unable to find whats wrong with this file, I didn't play with
> DNS since the release 4 but I wasn't expected that It has so mutch
> change on it. I use tab to separate the filed (i remember having trouble
> with 4.x on OSF/1 about that).

> Thanks for the help.

> Arno

See ripe document 192 ( DNS setup example ) for more details.


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