ACL ?

[Chris Thompson]

On Mar 23 2009, John D. Vo wrote:

>Trying to implement acl in my named.conf... for Bind 9.2.2
>
>acl eagle { 192.168.1.0/24; localhost; };
>
>But when I issued an reload, I got:
>
>Mar 23 08:55:39 ns1 named[13578]: [ID 866145 daemon.error] 
>/etc/named.conf:2: unknown option 'acl'
>Mar 23 08:55:39 ns1 named[13578]: [ID 866145 daemon.error] reloading 
>configuration failed: failure

Well, you ought to have let us see what was in line 1 of /etc/named.conf,
but I guess you have put your ACL definition inside the "options" 
statement. It should be a separate statement.

A couple of points:

1. You can (and should) test a new named.conf for syntax errors in 
   advance by using the named-checkconf program.

2. BIND 9.2.2 is very very old. The whole of the 9.2.x series is EOL
   (and that was after 9.2.9). It's long past time that you upgraded.

-- 
Chris Thompson
Email: cet1 at cam.ac.uk