my local zone rejected

Kevin Darcy kcd at daimlerchrysler.com
Thu Apr 19 19:55:46 UTC 2001


Jim Reid wrote:

> >>>>> "Gianluca" == Assihm  <gianluca at officine.it> writes:
>
>     Gianluca> im running bind 8.2.3 on a Deb2.2r2, in my soho net, im
>     Gianluca> not able to load my local zone which defines my doamin
>     Gianluca> called AlaShan. The errors reported in the syslog are
>     Gianluca> (right after 'ndc restart' cmd):
>
> Your SOA record is badly broken and syntactically illegal. It's
> missing the RNAME field, so the parser is misinterpreting the rest of
> the record. A side effect of that is the sanity checks on the refresh
> and retry values produce spectacular warnings. Try something like:
>
>     IN SOA FQDN-of-master-server gianluca.officine.it (
>            2001041900 ; Serial
>            .... etc
>
> And try to use the YYYYMMDDVV convention for the SOA Serial Number.

Why? That becomes meaningless as people migrate to Dynamic Update-based
maintenance systems.


- Kevin




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