"zone already exists" error preventing reload

[Jeff Lightner]

Too bad Mark couldn't just tell him that.

The level of abuse seen to questioners on this list is truly amazing.
One would think people annoyed by questions wouldn't bother to subscribe
to a list designed for them.  No one that uses BIND or UNIX/LINUX was
born knowing about it so its annoying when they pretend they do.

-----Original Message-----
From: bind-users-bounce at isc.org [mailto:bind-users-bounce at isc.org] On
Behalf Of Gregory Hicks
Sent: Monday, March 06, 2006 6:15 PM
To: lackey at manoutoftime.org; Mark_Andrews at isc.org
Cc: bind-users at isc.org
Subject: Re: "zone already exists" error preventing reload 


> To: "William R. Dickson" <lackey at manoutoftime.org>
> Cc: bind-users at isc.org
> From: Mark Andrews <Mark_Andrews at isc.org>
> Subject: Re: "zone already exists" error preventing reload 
> Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2006 08:57:26 +1100
> 
> 
> > There is one particular domain that, when added to named.conf,  
> > prevents a reload. The error is:
> > 
> > /usr/local/namedb/named.conf:72228: zone 'foo.com': already exists
> > 
> > I've received this error before when a coworker has somehow managed

> > to add a domain twice. So I went looking for the duplicate...and  
> > couldn't find one!

Taking Mark's comment (below) into account, the following command should
be:

root at oak#  grep -i foo.com named.conf

to make the search case InSeNsItIvE...

> > 
> > root at oak# grep foo.com named.conf
> > named.conf:zone "foo.com" {
> > named.conf:     file "dbfiles/foo.com";
> > 
> > But sure enough...commenting out the record in named.conf stops the

> > error from occurring, and named can still serve up responses for the

> > domain!
> > 
> > I'm stumped...haven't found a similar issue in the list archives or

> > via google. Any ideas?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > -Bill
> 
> 	Why do people do case sensitive searches on case insensitive
> 	data?
> 
> 	Mark
> --
> Mark Andrews, ISC
> 1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia
> PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742                 INTERNET: Mark_Andrews at isc.org
> 
> 

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