BIND 9.3.2 and temp box.

[Eric Berg]

Was just reading this today, Rex:  
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/networking/news/dnsandbind_0401.html

Item 3 answers your question.

-EB.



Mueller, Rex wrote:
> Eric, 
>
> New error
>
> no TTL specified; using SOA MINTTL instead
>  
> can we not use the zone files from 9.2.1 in 9.3.2? 
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eric Berg [mailto:eberg at bergbrains.com] 
> Sent: Monday, December 04, 2006 4:22 PM
> To: Mueller, Rex
> Cc: bind-users at isc.org; Mark Andrews
> Subject: Re: BIND 9.3.2 and temp box.
>
> Rex, looks like you have some bad names in your zone files.  I mainly 
> have run into this when I try to float names that have illegal 
> characters in them.  Depends on the version of bind your running too, 
> because the validation rules have changed from version to version.
>
> I couldn't change my host names that contain underscores "_", so I added
>
> this config which you might want to consider:
>
> options {
> 	check-names master ignore;
> };
>
>
> -Eric.
>
>
> Mueller, Rex wrote:
>   
>> All, 
>>  
>>
>> I have a temporary fedora box built up so I can rebuild our primary
>>     
> DNS
>   
>> box. 
>>
>> I copied the old file structure i.e. Zone Files and named.conf from
>>     
> the
>   
>> old server, and placed on the new server under /var/named/chroot/etc 
>>
>> Ran "/etc/init.d/named start" get some odd errors in the
>> /var/log/messages file
>>
>> bad owner name (check-names) hits the majority of the zone files, 
>>
>> Also when run rndc status the following returns: 
>> rndc status
>>
>> number of zones: 245
>>
>> debug level: 0
>>
>> xfers running: 0
>>
>> xfers deferred: 0
>>
>> soa queries in progress: 0
>>
>> query logging is OFF
>>
>> recursive clients: 0/1000
>>
>> tcp clients: 0/100
>>
>> server is up and running
>>
>>  
>>
>> So it appears it is seeing the zone files.. 
>>
>>  
>>
>> Can someone point me in a direction to head with this? 
>>
>>  
>>
>> Is it because the primary server is still active? And this temp box
>> doesn't know how to play in the same network? What am I missing ? 
>>
>>
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