Setting up a slave server.

[Allan Leahy]

I have a slave server that is acting like a forwarding server.  It will only work if the master server is up and running.  It will download the hosts.db and the hosts.rev from the master. This is the what I see when I start the named
 
starting.  named 8.2.2-P5-plus-CA-2000-20-plus-CA-2001-02
setrlimit(max data size): Invalid argument
setrlimit(max data size): Invalid argument
slave zone "gld.chartercom.com" (IN) loaded (serial 3)
slave zone "1.55.10.in-addr.arpa" (IN) loaded (serial 3)
Zone "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa" (file named.local): No default TTL set using SOA minimum instead
master zone "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa" (IN) loaded (serial 1)
: hint zone "" (IN) loaded (serial 0)
listening on [127.0.0.1].53 (lo0)
 listening on [10.55.1.2].53 (tu0)


Forwarding source address is [0.0.0.0].4000
Ready to answer queries.
 check_hints: A records for J.ROOT-SERVERS.NET class 1 do not match hint records
Internet name service started

 
 
 
 
  Here are the named.local, and named.conf files
 
Any Suggestions?
 
named.local
;
; BIND data file for local loopback interface.
;
@       IN      SOA     sheboygan.gld.chatercom.com  postmaster.sheboygan.gld.chatercom.com (
                        1       ; Serial
                        3600    ; Refresh
                        300     ; Retry
                        3600000 ; Expire
                        3600 )  ; Minimum
        IN      NS      sheboygan.gld.chatercom.com
1       IN      PTR     localhost.gld.chartercom.com
localhost.gld.chartercom.com      IN      A       127.0.0.1
 
 
// named.conf
            options {
                    directory "/etc/namedb/";
            };
            zone "gld.chartercom.com" {
                    type slave;
                    file "hosts.db";
                    masters {
                            10.55.1.253;
                    };
            };
            zone "1.55.10.in-addr.arpa" {
                    type slave;
                    file "hosts.rev";
                    masters {
                            10.55.1.253;
                    };
            };
                zone  "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa" {
                        type  master;
                        file  "named.local";
            };
                zone  "." {
                        type  hint;
                        file  "named.ca";
                };