invalid syntax...?

[Pete Ehlke]

On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 10:15:20AM -0600, Jonathan Villa wrote:
> I am running named-checkconf on a zone file of mine and get a message
> stating that $TTL is an unknown option...
> 
> Same applies for 
> 
> iscdev.com.zone:3: unknown option 'serial'
> iscdev.com.zone:4: unknown option 'refresh'
> iscdev.com.zone:5: unknown option 'retry'
> iscdev.com.zone:6: unknown option 'expire'
> iscdev.com.zone:7: unknown option 'ttl'
> 
> if I remove the $TTL, then it says @ is an unknown option...
> 
> have I misunderstood the use of named-checkconf
> 
Yes. named-checkconf, as its name implies, checks the syntax of
named.conf. You want to use named-checkzone tp parse zone files.

-Pete

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