"No current owner name" error BIND 9.0.1

[Kevin Darcy]

doc/misc/migration, Section 2.4.


- Kevin

Tim Villa wrote:

> Hi all,
> Having just upgraded from a (much) older version of BIND, and
> thank God I kept the old binary, I'm now getting the following
> errors trying to start the new daemon:
>
> Nov 16 19:15:54 kroner named[1538]: dns_master_load:
> primary/ecel.uwa.domain:8: No current owner name
> Nov 16 19:15:55 kroner named[1538]: dns_zone_load: zone ecel.uwa.edu.au/IN:
> database primary/ecel.uwa.domain: dns_db_load failed: no owner
> Nov 16 19:15:55 kroner named[1538]: loading zones: no owner
> Nov 16 19:15:55 kroner named[1538]: exiting (due to fatal error)
>
> I managed to sort out the $TTL directive problem to get this far
> but now I'm stumped again having checked the archives and
> anything else I could get my hands onto.  The relevant zone
> file starts as follows:
>
> ; Authoritative data for ecel.uwa.edu.au (ORIGIN assumed ecel.uwa.edu.au)
> $TTL 86400       @       IN      SOA     kroner.ecel.uwa.edu.au.
> postmaster.kroner.ecel.uwa.edu.au. (
>                                          2000110600      ; Serial
>                                          10800           ; Refresh 3 hours
>                                          3600            ; Retry   1 hour
>                                          3600000         ; Expire  1000 hours
>                                          86400 )         ; Minimum 24 hours
>                          IN      NS      kroner.ecel.uwa.edu.au.
>
> Line 8 from the error log is the IN NS line above (in case the lines
> are wrapping on your screen).
>
> Presumably I'm missing a directive there somewhere.  Any pointers?
>
> Thanks
> Tim