Req: Total beginners help - Win Q.

[Mark Andrews]

> > 
> > Would you be willing to post what you've been using that failed?
> > Although I'm not positive, I think that 1069 error is security related
> > and may actually not be related to your configuration at all.
> > 
> > -Tony
> 
> I posted this in my reply to Danny's post.
> 
> Please note I managed to get that sample I posted to load the named.root 
> file and the zone files but not until I changed 
> 
> zone "." IN {
> 	type hint;
> 	file "named.root";
> };
> 
> #
> # Configure ourself as the host for basiczone.com
> #
> zone "example.com" IN {
> 	type master;
> 	file "zones/example.com.zone";
> };
> 
> 
> ...to read  as...
> 
> zone "." IN {
> 	type hint;
> 	file "c:/windows/system32/dns/etc/named.root";
> };
> 
> #
> # Configure ourself as the host for basiczone.com
> #
> zone "example.com" IN {
> 	type master;
> 	file "c:/windows/system32/dns/etc/zones/example.com.zone";
> };
> 
> 
> Which would indicate that on windows setups an absolute path is required 
> rather than a virtual path.

	No.  It would indicate that you didn't specify a directory
	clause in named.conf.
 
> Also, I am getting more bugs in the config files after they are parsed.
> 
> All config files, be it the named.root, or any zone file, states that they 
> have an unexpected end of input.
> 
> I assume I am missing a terminator or tag somewhere??? 

	Lots of windows editors don't put a end of line marker (cr/nl)
	at the end of the last line of the document.  Just add a extra
	line to the end of the master files.

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