CAA RR type

[Mark Andrews]

In message <CANYqYkMxs4nYpg3XipbH2ursvp+6xTSMe_7g75SU=oWV0s7oiQ at mail.gmail.com>, rams writes:
> Hi.
> I have zone file as follows
> 
> $ORIGIN rameshtest-caa.com.
> $TTL 86400      ; 1 day
> @                       IN      SOA     ns1.rameshtest-caa.com.
> root.rameshtest-caa.com. (
>                                 2009040114 ; serial
>                                 3600       ; refresh (1 hour)
>                                 900        ; retry (15 minutes)
>                                 1814400    ; expire (3 weeks)
>                                 900        ; minimum (15 minutes)
>                                                 )
>                 IN      NS      ns1.rameshtest-caa.com.
>                 IN      A       1.1.1.1
> ns1             IN      A       1.2.3.4
> a               IN      A       2.2.2.2
> aaaa            IN      AAAA    3FFE:0B80:0444:0004:0000:0000:0000:0004
> caa             IN      CAA     0 issue "ca.example.net"
> caa1            IN     CAA     0 iodef "mailto:security at example.com"
> caa2            IN     CAA     0 iodef "http://iodef.example.com/"
> 
> When I start named, getting the following error:
> 
> /var/named/zones/rameshtest-caa.com:15: unknown RR type 'CAA'
> /var/named/zones/rameshtest-caa.com:16: unknown RR type 'CAA'
> /var/named/zones/rameshtest-caa.com:17: unknown RR type 'CAA'
> zone rameshtest-caa.com/IN: loading from master file /var/named/zones/
> rameshtest-caa.com failed: unknown class/type
> _default/rameshtest-caa.com/IN: unknown class/type
>                                                            [FAILED]
> 
> 
> I am using bind 9.6. Did I miss/mistake  anything here? Could you please
> guide me to work for CAA.
> 
> Thanks & Regards,
> Ramesh

Use a recent (supported) version of BIND.

CAA was published Jan 2013.
BIND 9.6.0 was released Dec 2008.

CAA Support was added to BIND at these release points:

	BIND 9.8.8	(BIND 9.8.x is at EoL)
	BIND 9.9.6  
	BIND 9.10.1

Mark
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