Stealth dns and SOA record

[Mark.Andrews at nominum.com]

> 
> "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.

	No you also added the missing space before the "(".

	e.g. 
		"hostmaster.kiwa.co.nz.(" -> "nic_lee.yahoo.com. ("

	Mark
> 
> Nicholas
> 
> 
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