Rejected due to errors (serial 27)

Riskable Riskable at YouKnowWhat.com
Fri Nov 10 14:13:04 UTC 2000


Awesome answers, thanks for your help!

-Riskable
"I have a license to kill -9"
----- Original Message -----
From: <Mark.Andrews at nominum.com>
To: Riskable <Riskable at YouKnowWhat.com>
Cc: <bind-users at isc.org>
Sent: Friday, November 10, 2000 6:24 AM
Subject: Re: Rejected due to errors (serial 27)


>
> >
> > Two things to note:
> >
> > First, there are no errors above the "master zone rejected" one.  In
fact,
> > there are no other errors in the log file.  Not even warnings.
>
> There were, there was one release were they were logged as info not
> error but they were logged.
>
> >
> > Second, I fail to see why I can't use the @ symbol.  I was under the
> > impression that in my example,
> >
> > @ IN CNAME www.somedomainname.com.
> >
> > the @ symbol is the same as placing "somedomain.net." there since the
> > named.conf explicitly states:
> >
> >  zone "somedomain.net" in {
> >    type master;
> >    file "master/somedomain.net.dns";
> >  };
> >
> > Meaning that the origin (@) is somedomain.net
>
> You have @ SOA, @ NS so you are not allowed to have @ CNAME.
>
> >
> > I guess I'm just looking for a better explanation.  Mark Andrews (the
post
> > after yours) stated,
> >
> > Yes, because you cannot have CNAMES and other data.  If you read
> > RFC 1034/1035 and look at how you process cached CNAMES you will
> > realise that this configuration can never work which is why we
> > detect it and complain.
> >
> > The part that I don't understand is "other data".  What other data can't
I
> > have?
>
> Any other data except the records which cryptographically verify
> the existance of the CNAME, SIG and NXT.  All the others are
> not allowed, A, NS, SOA, MX ....
>
> >
> > It would also be helpful if someone could give me an example of how I
should
> > properly setup the zone file to forward the domain so I can implement
the
> > proper changes.
>
> The long term solution will be to add a SRV record.  In the short
> term you need to add a A record.  As your favorite web browser
> vendor for SRV support.
>
> >
> > -Riskable
> > "I have a license to kill -9"
> >
> Mark
> --
> Mark Andrews, Nominum Inc.
> 1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia
> PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742                 INTERNET: Mark.Andrews at nominum.com
>




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