Error: already exists previous definition

[Mark Andrews]

In message <20120720204053.43B5615EC0C at da1.active-domain.com>, Active Venture -
 Tom writes:
> Hi
> 
> We have getting a lot of errors like the following from our BIND 9 
> servers (9.5.1.1):

9.5.1 has know security flaws and was end of lifed several years ago.
 
> 20-Jul-2012 15:26:40.181 config: error: 
> /var/named/etc/namedb/conf/zone_0.conf:1529: zone 'xxxxx.net': 
> already exists previous definition: /var/named/etc/namedb/conf/zone_0.conf:15
> 29
> 20-Jul-2012 15:26:46.270 general: error: reloading configuration 
> failed: failure
> 
> This has never ever happened before and the problem only started a 
> few days day, and we did not make any changes to our BIND servers.

That you remember or someone is honest enough to admit to.

The error looks like you have included a configuration file twice.

> In 
> fact, we have using the same set up and configuration for over 3 
> years without any problem until now.
> 
> The puzzling aspect is, there is NO duplicated config or zone entries 
> at all for the domains listed in such error. In this instance, this 
> is the only line found in zone_0.conf:
> 
> zone "xxxxx.net" {type master; file 
> "/var/named/etc/namedb/zones/0/xxxxx.net"; notify no; };
> 
> I will appreciate greatly if someone could offer any advise or idea 
> as to what's exactly causing such errors? Thanks vert much.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Tom
> 
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