Troll alert: was:
Paul Jacobs
paul at netpacq.com
Tue Jul 4 22:28:46 UTC 2000
>
> > Glad to see my DNS is working good... thanks for that info!
>
>Before making that claim, you should fix the following problems:
>
> 1. The RNAME field of the SOA record should be 'webmaster.cx1.com'.
> The "@" character is never valid in this field, even if escaped.
Fixed thanks.
> 2. The root nameservers list the following hosts to be authoritative
> for 'netpacq.com':
>
> NS1.NETPACQ.NET. 2D IN A 208.239.156.4
> NS3.NETPACQ.NET. 2D IN A 208.239.156.6
> NS2.NETPACQ.NET. 2D IN A 208.239.156.5
The below is a off-site secondary..
> NS1.ARDENTMICRO.com. 2D IN A 206.20.122.11
>
> The first two are indeed authoritative although 'ns3' is missing
> from your NS RRset. The last two nameservers are not authoritative
> for your zone, however. This could very well be due to their
> refusal to load your zone because of the bad SOA record. If these
> two nameservers resume being authoritative for your zone after the
> SOA RR fix, they should also be added to your NS RRset.
>
> 3. Finally, it would be a good idea to *not* override BIND's default
> level of name checking on your master nameserver:
>
> check-names master fail;
>
> The error message about your SOA record would have been discovered
> in your syslog while investigating the reason why your nameserver
> refused to load the zone.
>
>
>
>Verifying zone data for domain 'netpacq.com'.
>Getting NS RRset...
>Transferring zone.... (from 'NS1.NETPACQ.NET' [208.239.156.4])
>Parsing zone data... (NS BIND version: 8.2.2-P5)
>
>Misconfigured RNAME field.
> > @ 1D IN SOA ns1.netpacq.net.
> webmaster\@cx1.com. (
> 10422010 ; serial
> 3H ; refresh
> 1H ; retry
> 1w1d ; expiry
> 1D ) ; minimum
>
>Performing in-zone and external lookups...
>
>Warning: found zone(s) not having at least two listed nameservers (RFC-1034):
> @ 86400 IN NS ns1.netpacq.net.
>Warning: found inconsistent NS RRsets surrounding the zone boundary
>(RFC-1034):
> netpacq.com. IN NS ns1.ardentmicro.com.
> IN NS ns1.netpacq.net.
> IN NS ns2.netpacq.net.
> IN NS ns3.netpacq.net.
> (non-authoritative)
> ---------------------------- zone cut ----------------------------
> ( authoritative )
> @ IN NS ns1.netpacq.net.
>Warning: verifying the NS delegations generated the following error(s):
> Server ns1.ardentmicro.com is not authoritative for netpacq.com
> Server ns2.netpacq.net is not authoritative for netpacq.com
NS2.netpacq.net is a secondary name server.
Thanks for the info...
Best regards,
Paul Jacobs /Senior Network Eng.
Commerce Service Provider (CSP)
Internet Presence Provider (IPP)
http://www.netpacq.com
mailto:paul at netpacq.com
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