Transfers not working

[Barry Margolin]

In article <e0hj57$2gar$1 at sf1.isc.org>, gouriev at icenet.ru wrote:

> > In article <e0f6od$jcr$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
> >  Kevin Darcy <kcd at daimlerchrysler.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Your zone has errors, all bets are off:
> >
> > Why?  None of these are errors that BIND could detect and cause zone
> > transfer failures.
> >
> >>
> ...
> >> 1) Missing trailing periods. You probably don't want named's parser to
> >> interpret your strings as "root.localhost.versaterm.com." or
> >> "smtp.versaterm.com.versaterm.com.", respectively, but that exactly how
> >> they will be interpreted, assuming that you are loading this zone file
> >> relative to versaterm.com, because of the lack of trailing periods, and
> >> 2) NS records point to *names*, not IP addresses.
> ...
> 
> The server will reject a zone file with these errors,
> at leat with #2, will not it ?

No.  IP addresses are syntactically valid as hostnames, they just 
usually can't be resolved.  But BIND doesn't check whether it can 
resolve nameserver names when it's loading the file.

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Barry Margolin, barmar at alum.mit.edu
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