unknown RR Type '/ANY'

[phn at icke-reklam.ipsec.nu]

ObiWan <grayhat at gmx.net> wrote:

>> I am on BIND, 9.2.0, not the one that I mentioned. Would moving to
>> 9.2.1 help? Iam wiling to give it a try, but things are okay for the
>> moment.

> Afaik the answer is *no* and I'll explain why in a little
>  
>> Cache.db is not a file that I edited, the file is something bind
>> writes on exit, and reloads on startup.
>> 
>> All I did was to put in the 
>> cache-file "Cache.db"; 
>> option in named.conf.

> Yes, I know how that works; as I see it, that option should be
> somewhat "experimental" and intended to be used to persist "dynamic
> dns" informations between boots (you can specify the "cache-file"
> option inside zones too); in any case, putting that option into the
> general options "section" will tell BIND 9.2.0 & 1 to dump the full
> content of its cache to the given file upon shutdown and to reload it
> upon startup; the problem is that this file will contain negative
> answers too (marked as /ANY) and the function which reloads the cache
> won't handle them properly (it's a bug) and will cause BIND to fail
> loading. To fix this you'll need to edit the source code and correct
> the "cache load" behaviour *or* to remove the "cache-file" directive.

Where is the "cache-file" documented ( apart from misc/options ) ?




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