soa.granitecanyon.com setup problem

[Joseph S D Yao]

T. T. Lee just wanted to know:
> this simple task (suppose to) wasted my whole weekend. I still can't
> figure out what I did wrong. I keep getting this error message when I
> click on "submit" button:
> 
> Go back and fix these errors:
> nscheck: RP TXT field is missing
...
> can't find anything wrong.. here is my file:
...
> coolnow.com.  IN  RP hotister at hotmail.com.
> 
> hotister.coolnow.com.    IN  TXT "T.T. Lee, NIC handle: TT309"
...
> And I read the FAQ again and again, here is what it said:
> 
> =======
> nscheck: RP TXT field is missing
> RP records are always of the following format:
> <name.zone.top-level-zone> IN RP <email address> <TXT RR name>
> 
> where:
> <name.zone.top-level-zone> is the name of the record
> <email address> is an email address in DNS format (with the @ replaced
> by dots)
> <TXT RR name> is the name of an associated TXT record with additional
> contact information about the human being who can respond to problems
> with this zone. Usually this includes a telephone number and/or a NIC
> handle, as assigned by the appropriate registrar (InterNic, ARIN, RIPE
> or APNIC.) These NIC handles are not the same as your userid, and
> cannot be made up.
> ========
> According to the "example" provide by granitecanyon.com, this is what
> it should look like:
...
> ; multiple RP records authorize others to submit zone changes
> ; from the email address in the first field after the RP
> ; This email address is in DNS-email format. That is,
> ; the '@' (at-sign) is replaced by '.' (dot or period.)
> 
> coffee.com.  IN  RP juan.tea.com. Juan.Valdez.coffee.com.
> coffee.com.  IN  RP juanita.tea.com. Juanita.Valdez.coffee.com.
> 
> Juan.Valdez.coffee.com.    IN  TXT "Juan Valdez,    NIC handle: JUAN123"
> Juanita.Valdez.coffee.com. IN  TXT "Juanita Valdez, RIPE NIC handle:
> JUANITA"
...
> Could anyone tell me what I did wrong?? Thanks a bunch!!

You have already done an excellent job of doing exactly that.  The
error message, the FAQ, and the example all three tell you that you are
missing the second argument, the name of the RR containing the TXT
record, which in your case appears to be "hotister.coolnow.com.".  The
FAQ and the example also tell you that you should not use the "@" in
the e-mail address, since the "@" character has a special meaning in
BIND zone files.  So, your RP record should read:

coolnow.com.  IN  RP hotister.hotmail.com. hotister.coolnow.com.

or just

@	IN  RP hotister.hotmail.com. hotister.coolnow.com.

Capish?

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