Problem with BIND 9.2.1 Logging

[Mark_Andrews at isc.org]

> I wrote (lines with ">>" prefix):
> and Peter Håkanson replied (lines with ">" prefix):
> My reply to Peter is at the end.
> 
> >> I am having a problem with BIND 9.2.1 and logging.  I have two Solaris
> >> 5.6 systems.  One one (a slave server), when I tested BIND 9.2.1 I saw
> >> these messages in /var/adm/messages (reformatted as to not wrap):
> 
> >>      Jul  1 12:57:11 titania.ctd.anl.gov named[11253]:
> >>        starting BIND 9.2.1 -c /export/home/named/named.conf.titania
> >>      Jul  1 12:58:32 titania.ctd.anl.gov named[11253]: net174.rev:6:
> >>        no TTL specified; using SOA MINTTL instead
> >>      Jul  1 13:00:53 titania.ctd.anl.gov named[11253]: running
> 
> >The "using SOA MINTTL instead" means that teh zonefile lacks "$TTL" at zone
> >top, but instead of refusing to load as previous bind-9 did, it warns. Stran
> ge
> >however that it says so about a slave zone ... Is there a possibility
> >of mixup here ?
> 
> >> On the hidden master, I get these messages:
> 
> >>      Jul  2 07:15:25 puck.ctd.anl.gov named[21131]:
> >>        loading configuration from '/export/home/named/named.conf.puck'
> >>      Jul  2 07:15:47 puck.ctd.anl.gov named[21131]:
> >>        zone tis.anl.gov/IN: loaded serial 2002070102
> 
> >> On the master, I do not get the "starting" nor "running" messages.
> 
> >No they are gone with bind-9. There is a class "general" that seems to
> >occur :
> >May  8 19:52:39 ns named[9648]: general: running
> >( not shure of loglevel to get this printed)
> >
> >In general, the logmessages are quite different from bind-8. Sometimes
> >it's something lacking, but mostly it's better(imho).
> 
> When I start BIND 9.2.1 on titania (slave), I get these two messages
> 
>        Jul  1 12:57:11 titania.ctd.anl.gov named[11253]:
>          starting BIND 9.2.1 -c /export/home/named/named.conf.titania
>        Jul  1 13:00:53 titania.ctd.anl.gov named[11253]: running
> 
> which obviously are produced by BIND 9.2.1; I do not get those messages
> on the master.  I will reboot the hidden master soon (it has gone 210
> days since the last reboot), as there might be some recent maintenance
> that is not yet operational.  Once I am able to see the "starting" and
> "running" messages on the master, then I will see what other messages
> on the master I might have also been missing.  Then I will try to
> diagnose why I am getting the TTL messages on the slave but not on the
> master.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Barry S. Finkel
> Electronics and Computing Technologies Division
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> 
	You have filtered out the 'info' level messages.

	Mark
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