error: bad dotted quad

[Karl Auer]

On Thu, 2006-12-07 at 14:32 -0800, Bryan Irvine wrote:
> I made a change to DNS and added this record:
>         IN A            usnlbc.us.publicus.com.
> 
> 
> 
> and I'm getting this error:
> 
> 07-Dec-2006 14:30:30.266 general: error: dns_rdata_fromtext:
> /master/kingcountyjournal.com.hosts:24: near 'usnlbc.us.publicus.com.': bad
> dotted quad
> 07-Dec-2006 14:30:30.270 general: error: zone kingcountyjournal.com/IN:
> loading master file /master/kingcountyjournal.com.hosts: bad dotted quad
> 
> 
> Am I doing something wrong here?

Yes. The error message is happening because you have a name where the
nameserver expects a dotted quad (IPv4 address).

An A record looks like this:

   somename  someTTL  IN A dotted-quad

e.g.:

   blather.mydomain.com. 3600 IN A 10.1.1.1

someTTL is optional. somename is optional too, and will be the origin if
left out. If it doesn't end with a dot, the origin will be appended to
it.

Maybe describe what exactly you want to happen, and we can suggest how
to make it so...? 

Regards, K.

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