Some basic bind configuration questions

Mark_Andrews at isc.org Mark_Andrews at isc.org
Thu Aug 30 23:20:44 UTC 2001


> I used the programs named-checkconf and named-checkzone to verify that
> the configuration file and zone files are correct, is there a program to
> check the 1reverse lookup files?

	Yes.  named-checkzone:-)

> muskie[dns/master]> /opt/bind/sbin/named-checkzone 127.0.0
> dns_master_load: 127.0.0:2: ignoring out-of-zone data
> (0.0.127.in-addr.arpa)
> dns_master_load: 127.0.0:9: ignoring out-of-zone data
> (0.0.127.in-addr.arpa)
> dns_master_load: 127.0.0:10: ignoring out-of-zone data
> (1.0.0.127.in-addr.arpa)
> dns_zone_load: zone 127.0.0/IN: could not find NS and/or SOA records
> dns_zone_load: zone 127.0.0/IN: has 0 SOA records
> dns_zone_load: zone 127.0.0/IN: no NS records

	The zone name is not "127.0.0", it is "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa".
	It's hardly suprising that you got errors when you gave the
	wrong name to named-checkzone.

	Mark
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