Debian vs SuSE

[Bill.Light at kp.org]

In /etc/bind/named.conf.local, I added the following line after the line 
// include "/etc/bind/zones.rfc1918";
include "/etc/bind/zone.light-family.com";

I then used the SuSE convention I was shown of db.light-family.com and 
copied to zone.light-family.com (also in /etc/bind/  directory) which 
looks like:

$TTL    86400
light-family.com.       IN      SOA     dns1 (
                        webmaster       ; Who to notify at 
"light-family.com"
                        2003060101      ; Serial
                        7200            ; Refresh after 2 hours
                        3600            ; Retry after 1 hour
                        604800          ; Expire after 1 week
                        7200 )          ; Negative Cache TTL of 2 hours
;
; Name servers
;
                        IN      NS      dns1.light-family.com.
                        IN      NS      ns1.4servers.com.
                        IN      NS      ns2.4servers.com.
;
; Mail servers
;
                        IN      MX      10      mail.light-family.com.  ; 
Primary
;mail                   IN      A               66.124.156.123
;
; Host addresses
;
localhost               IN      A               127.0.0.1
dns1                    IN      A               66.124.156.123
mail                    IN      A               66.124.156.123
;
; Aliases
;
www                     IN      CNAME           dns1.light-family.com.
;
; SPF Record setup - see: http:///spf.pobox.com/
;
light-family.com.       IN      TXT     "v=spf1 a mx:mail.light-family.com 
mx:mail.light-family.com ip4:66.124.156.123 include:light-family.com, 
include:sbcglobal.net ~all"

I thought I was being failry vanilla, but I'm still getting lost as to 
where files are in Debian vs SuSE.  I am a total Debian noob.

SuSE Bind is 9.2.4  (as I recall it is an old 9.0 or 9.1 SuSE distro)
and the Bind on debian is 9.3.4

Bill

==============================================================================




Karl Auer <kauer at biplane.com.au> 
Sent by: bind-users-bounce at isc.org
09/11/07 03:52 PM

To
comp-protocols-dns-bind at isc.org
cc

Subject
Re: Debian vs SuSE






On Tue, 2007-09-11 at 15:04 -0700, Bill.Light at kp.org wrote:
> I am moving a working BIND from a SuSE box to a Debian (Etch) box.  I've 

> tried scp, copy/paste and  touching a new file, typing from scratch ... 
> all with the same result.
> When I rndc reload or start, I start off with a string of errors
> unknown option '$TTL'
> unknown option 'Who'
> unknown option 'Serial'
> 
> I've tried starting with a comment (semi-colon) and it eliminates all 
> those errors, and then gives   syntax error near ';'

It sounds a bit as if you are not loading the file you think you are
loading. "Unknown option" doesn't usually come from a zone file, but
from a config file - but $TTL is in a zone file, not a config file.

Are the BIND versions the same? How about posting the actual fragment
that gives the error?

Regards, K.

-- 
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Karl Auer (kauer at biplane.com.au)                   +61-2-64957160 (h)
http://www.biplane.com.au/~kauer/                  +61-428-957160 (mob)