Interpreting syslog message: not at top of zone
phn at icke-reklam.ipsec.nu
phn at icke-reklam.ipsec.nu
Wed Apr 14 18:20:10 UTC 2004
Rich Parkin <RParkin at ldmi.com> wrote:
> Hello all!
> I'm getting a non-fatal error message whenever I start BIND. It's
> obviously a configuration error on my part, but I'm embarrassed to say I
> can't figure out what I'm doing wrong.
> The error message is:
> # Apr 14 15:52:00 unknown named[439]: dns_master_load: 0.0.127.db:14:
> localhost: not at top of zone
> Apr 14 15:52:00 unknown named[439]: zone 0.0.127.in-addr.arpa/IN:
> loading master file 0.0.127.db: not at top of zone
> The snippet from my named.conf is -
> zone "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa" IN {
> type master;
> file "0.0.127.db";
> notify no;
> allow-update { none; };
> };
> And here is the content of the zone -
> $TTL 86400 ; default TTL (24 hours)
> $ORIGIN localhost.
> @ IN SOA localhost. root.localhost. (
> 2004032901
> 10800
> 3600
> 604800
> 86400 )
> IN NS localhost.
> 1 IN PTR localhost.
> localhost resolves to 127.0.0.1 but I can't resolve 127.0.0.1 back to
> localhost and I get a SERVFAIL message when I try it. Can anyone tell
> me what I'm doing wrong and what "not at top of zone" actually means?
> Thanks in advance,
Remove the "$ORIGIN localhost.", it will position the file at
wrong origin.
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Peter Håkanson
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