Newbie-Problems ???

F. Meyer-Kassel meyer-kassel at online-shop-ag.com
Tue Nov 23 15:25:29 UTC 1999


Hi all !

I just installed BIND 8 on SuSE 6.2, edited the named.conf and inserted a
domain for testing-purposes.

I created the both zonefiles and started named, but I always get these lines
in my syslog:

Nov 23 16:19:13 www1 named[1684]: starting
Nov 23 16:19:13 www1 named[1684]: cache zone "" (IN) loaded (serial 0)
Nov 23 16:19:13 www1 named[1684]: master zone "localhost" (IN) loaded
(serial 42
)
Nov 23 16:19:13 www1 named[1684]: master zone "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa" (IN)
loaded
 (serial 42)
Nov 23 16:19:13 www1 named[1684]: master zone "studio61.de" (IN) loaded
(serial
3)
Nov 23 16:19:13 www1 named[1684]: 89.159.62.zone:1: SOA for
"89.159.62.in-addr-a
rpa" not at zone top "89.159.62.in-addr.arpa"
Nov 23 16:19:13 www1 named[1684]: 89.159.62.zone:6: data
"89.159.62.in-addr-arpa
" outside zone "89.159.62.in-addr.arpa" (ignored)
Nov 23 16:19:13 www1 named[1684]: 89.159.62.zone:10: data
"89.159.62.in-addr-arp
a" outside zone "89.159.62.in-addr.arpa" (ignored)
Nov 23 16:19:13 www1 named[1684]: 89.159.62.zone:11: data
"89.159.62.in-addr-arp
a" outside zone "89.159.62.in-addr.arpa" (ignored)
Nov 23 16:19:13 www1 named[1684]: Zone "89.159.62.in-addr.arpa" (file
89.159.62.
zone): no NS RRs found at zone top
Nov 23 16:19:13 www1 named[1684]: master zone "89.159.62.in-addr.arpa" (IN)
reje
cted due to errors (serial 3)
Nov 23 16:19:13 www1 named[1684]: listening on [127.0.0.1].53 (lo)
Nov 23 16:19:13 www1 named[1684]: listening on [62.159.89.66].53 (eth0)
Nov 23 16:19:13 www1 named[1684]: Forwarding source address is
[0.0.0.0].1037
Nov 23 16:19:13 www1 named[1685]: Ready to answer queries.


Despite the last line says "Ready to answer queries" the domain
"studio61.de" cannot be resolved, I always get "can't find studio61.de:
Non-existent host/domain" ???

The both zone-files look like this :

--------- snip snip snip ----------- Name of file :
studio61.de.zone -----------------------


studio61.de. IN SOA localhost. root.localhost. (
                        3               ; Serial
                        10800           ; 3h Refresh
                        3600            ; Retry after 1h
                        604800          ; Expire after 1 week
                        86400 )         ; 1 day TTL
;
; Nameservers
;
studio61.de. IN NS ns.online-shop-ag.de.
studio61.de. IN NS ns.kundenserver.de

;
; Host Adresses
;
localhost.studio61.de.  IN A    127.0.0.1
www.studio61.de.        IN A    62.159.89.66

---------------- snip snip snip ---------------------
EOF ------------------------


---------------- snip snip snip ----------------- Name of file :
89.159.62.zone -------------------

89.159.62.in-addr-arpa. IN SOA localhost. root.localhost. (
                                3               ; Serial
                                10800           ; 3h Refresh
                                3600            ; Retry after 1h
                                604800          ; Expire after 1 week
                                86400 )         ; 1 day TTL
;
; Nameservers
;
89.159.62.in-addr-arpa. IN NS ns.online-shop-ag.de.
89.159.62.in-addr-arpa. IN NS ns.kundenserver.de

;
; Addresses point to canonical name
;
66.89.159.62            IN PTR www.studio61.de

------------- snip snip snip ------------------------------ EOF


And my definition of that zone in named.conf looks like this :

------------------- snip snip snip ---------------------------------------
zone "studio61.de" IN {
        type master;
        file "studio61.de.zone";
        # by default, any host can receive zone transfers
        allow-transfer { any; };
        notify yes;
};

zone "89.159.62.in-addr.arpa" IN {
        type master;
        file "89.159.62.zone";
};
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
EOF ----------------

Can anybody help ?? What does "SOA for "89.159.62.in-addr-a
rpa" not at zone top "89.159.62.in-addr.arpa"" mean ???

Thanks for your help and sorry if this is a dumb question... :-)



Florian Meyer-Kassel
Online-Shop-AG
71088 Holzgerlingen
07031-74101544



More information about the bind-users mailing list