error: bad dotted quad

[Bryan Irvine]

On 12/7/06, Joseph S D Yao <jsdy at center.osis.gov> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 02:32:54PM -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 following are not decimal numbers between 0 and 255:
>         usnlbc
>         us
>         publicus
>         com
>         ""
> and therefore "usnlbc.us.publicus.com." is a bad numeric IP address.

it failed when using cname also, see the post I made a few minutes ago
about that.

> And what's with the "Reply-To: root at allyourbasearebelongto.us"?

That's my email address.  Thank you for posting it in such an easy to
scavenge place. ;)

--Bryan