Searchable Reference Regarding Errors and Warnings

[Barry Margolin]

In article <200001202131.NAA15741 at isrv3.isc.org>,
Martin McCormick  <martin at dc.cis.okstate.edu> wrote:
>	Where is there a resource that lists bind warnings and errors
>and explains what caused them?

I don't know offhand of a resource more complete than the O'Reilly book.
Unfortunately, it only describes some of the most common errors.

>	I have the Oreily book and it is a gold mine, but I am
>presently caught up in what I call the "treasure hunt syndrome" in
>which one spends (mostly wastes) time treading data and not
>necessarily heading to a solution.  I have an error which says:
>
> query(some.domain) contains our address (ns.cis.okstate.edu:139.78.100.1)
>
>	We are a slave dns for some.domain so there is a NS record
>listed in their SOA for ns.cis.okstate.edu all right, right under
>their own NS record.  I thought that's what is normally done.

That message means that the NS record points to your machine, but it
doesn't have the zone in its configuration.  If it's configured as a slave
for some.domain, maybe it has been getting errors when it tries to transfer
the zone.

>	I want to know what this condition means, but better yet, I
>would like to see a listing somewhere, preferably in searchable form,
>of every single ill-health condition and at least a thumbnail
>description of what caused it so we can more quickly fix the problem
>and spend less time on a wild goose chase.

Wouldn't it be nice if all software came with something like this.
Unfortunately, hardly any does, and BIND is little different from the rest.

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