error after change master to secondary

Mathias Körber mathias at koerber.org
Tue Nov 7 01:48:19 UTC 2000


> It would have helped a lot if you posted the zone file. How large can =
a
> 0.0.127.in-addr.arpa zone file be?
>=20
> My *GUESS* is that you accidentally put a period after the name
> "localhost". That makes it a member of the *root* zone. Since this is
> 0.0.127.in-addr.arpa rather than the root zone, named then loudly =
omits
> that entry.

Hmm. that would only happen if she defined a hostname in the reverse =
zone,
as on the RHS it would not complain..

But what would a host name localhost.0.0.127.in-addr.arpa be any use =
anyway?

The problem seems to be that Julie is trying to define the localhost A =
record
in the reverse zone. There are two places for it

a) her forward zone(s), to make localhost.her.domain, and=20
b) (if she has some special setup with a local (pseudo-)root,=20
    in her root-zone file.


c) It should be defined in her /etc/hosts file anyway as fallback.

I thought there was a "localhost." entry in the public root zone, but =
that
may have gone or have been wishful thinking in the first place.

$ dig localhost. a @a.root-servers.net

; <<>> DiG 8.2 <<>> localhost. a @a.root-servers.net=20
; (1 server found)
;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch
;; got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 6
;; flags: qr aa rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; QUERY SECTION:
;;      localhost, type =3D A, class =3D IN

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
.                       1D IN SOA       A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. =
hostmaster.nsiregistry.NET. (
                                        2000110600      ; serial
                                        30M             ; refresh
                                        15M             ; retry
                                        1W              ; expiry
                                        1D )            ; minimum


;; Total query time: 309 msec
;; FROM: matjes to SERVER: a.root-servers.net  198.41.0.4
;; WHEN: Tue Nov  7 09:45:03 2000
;; MSG SIZE  sent: 27  rcvd: 103


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>=20
> - Kevin
> Julie Xu wrote:
>=20
> > Hi,
> >
> > After change a master NDS server to secondary, I have a error
> > from logging:
> > localhost.rev:14: data "localhost" outside zone
> > "0.0.127.IN-ADDR.ARPA" (ignored)
> >
> > My machine is bind 8.2-p5/solaris 7
> >
> > Any comments will be appreciated
>=20
>=20
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