bind9: unknown RR type, unknown class/type errors

[Chris Buxton]

On Apr 14, 2009, at 7:01 AM, Frank Moeller wrote:
> /etc/bind/db.go.wiki:
> ============
> $ORIGIN go.wiki.
> $TTL 1D
> @     IN SOA   localhost. hostmaster. (
>                        200405191 ; serial
>                        8H        ; refresh
>                        4H        ; retry
>                        4W        ; expire
>                        1D )      ; minimum
>              IN  NS      localhost.
>              IN  A       10.3.64.39
>
>
> After restarting bind9 I receive the following message in the  
> daemon.log:
>
> Apr 14 15:51:34 ingobert named[14090]: /etc/bind/db.go.wiki:1:  
> unknown RR
> type 'go.wiki.'
> Apr 14 15:51:34 ingobert named[14090]: zone go.wiki/IN: loading from  
> master
> file /etc/bind/db.go.wiki failed: unknown class/type
>
> Any idea what's going wrong? Are there any limitations to zone or  
> domain
> names?

The message says you have an error on line 1, and that go.wiki. is  
being parsed as a record type. Check the file again and make sure you  
have a $ before "ORIGIN". Or better yet, take out the $ORIGIN  
statement, as it's completely unnecessary.

Chris Buxton
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