bind errors

[Doug Barton]

On Thu, 13 Feb 2003, maruscia wrote:

> I've got some problems in configuring my master zone, i'm running named
> (bind v 8.1) on freebsd,

Please upgrade asap. That version has numerous nasty security holes. The
freebsd port of bind 8 allows you to overwrite the system version if you
choose, but you'd be better off upgrading to the latest 4.7-Stable which
has the updated bind as part of the base.

> [message:  Feb 13 17:40:02 matrix named[4802]: master zone "myzone" (IN)
> rejected due to errors (serial 2003021300) ]

This message doesn't mean that there is something wrong with the serial.
It's telling you what version of the zone file it's complaining about.

> @ IN MX  my.mailserver.it.

As others have said, you need a preference value, like:

@ IN MX 10 my.mailserver.it.

Good luck,

Doug

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