Stealth dns and SOA record

Nicholas Lee nj.lee at kiwa.co.nz
Thu Feb 3 23:25:27 UTC 2000


"Barry Margolin" <barmar at bbnplanet.com> wrote in message
news:eInm4.39$mn5.443 at burlma1-snr2...

>
> I usually just say "published servers" and "hidden primary".

I guess that makes things cleaner.

> >Tell me, is there a issue with only the PDP slaving to the stealth server
> >while the PDSs remain slaved to the PDP?
>
> No.  The PDSs will log warnings about getting NOTIFY from a non-master

Great, thanks for the clarity.

> >Actually one other thing I noticed about the SOA record is that, given
the
> >master zone, if no MX record exists in the db.domain file and a
nic.domain
> >point of contact (POC) record is used in both the db.domain and db."PTR"
> >files, then named (8.2.2P5) complains on the db."PTR" POC but not the
> >db.domain POC.

Actually that should be (8.2.2P6 openbsd, rather than 8.2.2P5)

> I've never heard of named complaining about the POC field at all.  What
> does it say about them?


Feb  2 18:15:17 water-open named[31688]: reloading nameserver
Feb  2 18:15:17 water-open named[31688]: Zone "kiwa.co.nz" (file
master/db.kiwa): No default TTL set
 using SOA minimum instead
Feb  2 18:15:17 water-open named[31688]: master zone "kiwa.co.nz" (IN)
loaded (serial 200020101)
F
Feb  2 18:02:13 water-open named[31688]: Zone "8.168.192.in-addr.arpa" (file
master/db.192.168.8): N
o default TTL set using SOA minimum instead
Feb  2 18:02:13 water-open named[31688]: mail name
"hostmaster.kiwa.co.nz.(.8.168.192.in-addr.arpa"
(owner "8.168.192.in-addr.arpa") IN (primary) is invalid - rejecting
Feb  2 18:02:13 water-open named[31688]: master/db.192.168.8:1: database
naming error
Feb  2 18:02:13 water-open named[31688]: master/db.192.168.8:1: Database
error near (bad name "hostm
aster.kiwa.co.nz.(.8.168.192.in-addr.arpa")
Feb  2 18:02:13 water-open named[31688]: master/db.192.168.8:2: Database
error near ()
Feb  2 18:02:13 water-open named[31688]: master/db.192.168.8:3: Database
error near ()
Feb  2 18:02:13 water-open named[31688]: master/db.192.168.8:4: Database
error near ()
Feb  2 18:02:13 water-open named[31688]: master/db.192.168.8:5: Database
error near ()
Feb  2 18:02:13 water-open named[31688]: master/db.192.168.8: Line 6:
Unknown type: ).
Feb  2 18:02:13 water-open named[31688]: master/db.192.168.8:6: Database
error near ())
Feb  2 18:02:13 water-open named[31688]: Zone "8.168.192.in-addr.arpa" (file
master/db.192.168.8): n
o SOA RR found
Feb  2 18:02:13 water-open named[31688]: master zone
"8.168.192.in-addr.arpa" (IN) rejected due to e
rrors (serial 0)
Feb  2 18:15:17 water-open named[31688]: Forwarding source address is
[0.0.0.0].28545
Feb  2 18:15:17 water-open named[31688]: Ready to answer queries.


I was simply fiddling around at the time trying to get my nslookup working.
So at the time I didn't bother  with the MX record for kiwa.co.nz.
When I simply changed the POC from hostmaster.kiwa.co.nz. to
nic_lee.yahoo.com. the error simply went away.

Nicholas




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