ERROR when tring to Start BIND

[Pete Ehlke]

On Fri, Jun 21, 2002 at 12:32:33AM +1000, Jester wrote:
> Hello,
> 
>              I have moved up to REdhat 7.2 after i had been running 6.1 for
> quite a while. Was running 8.2.3 but have now got 9.1.3
> 
I don't always jump right on the 'upgrade' bandwagon, but in this case
your problem is directly caused by running an out of date version of
bind.

> I had saved all my config files but when starting it is not liking the
> options in my named.conf file any longer. It essentially starts by showing
> my internal network range like so
> 
> acl internal {
>         192.168.0.0/24;
> };
> 
> I get this written to my messages file
> 
> Jun 21 12:32:44 Echelon named[1816]: starting BIND 9.1.3 -u named
> Jun 21 12:32:44 Echelon named[1816]: using 1 CPU
> Jun 21 12:32:44 Echelon named[1819]: loading configuration from
> '/etc/named.conf'
> Jun 21 12:32:44 Echelon named[1819]: /etc/named.conf:1: parse error near
> internal

'internal' was a reserved word in 9.1. Either change the name of your
acl, or, preferrably, get a current version of bind.

-Pete