domain has no SOA but it is there.

Barry Margolin barmar at genuity.net
Thu Dec 13 18:48:13 UTC 2001


In article <9vasr5$547 at pub3.rc.vix.com>,
Matt Darcy <matthew at darcy.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I have 2 dns servers. berger and alesi.
>
>1 is a master (berger) and the second a slave (alesi)
>
>both are configured to run .com addresses.
>
>Both servers have copys of the zone files in /var/named
>berger has this line in named.conf
>
>zone "bathjobs.com" {
>        type master;
>        file "named.bathjobs.com";
>};
>
>
>and alesi has this
>
>zone "bathjobs.com" {
>        type slave;
>        file "named.bathjobs.com";
>        masters { 217.34.194.217; };
>};
>
>the named.bathjobs.com looks like this.
>
>@       IN  SOA  bathjobs.com.   hostmaster.bathjobs.com. (
>                                2001021402   ; Serial
>                                10800   ; refresh
>                                3600    ; Retry 1 hour
>                                604800  ; Expire 1 week
>                                86400 ) ; Minimum TTL 1 day
>; name servers for domain
>                IN      NS      berger.projecthugo.co.uk.
>                IN      NS      alesi.projecthugo.co.uk.
>
>; mail server for user at domain
>                IN      MX      5  mail.bathjobs.com.
>                IN      MX      10 mail.projecthugo.co.uk.
>
>; Addresses of hosts
>berger          IN      A       217.34.194.217
>alesi           IN      A       217.34.194.218
>www             IN      A       217.34.194.217
>mail            IN      A       217.34.194.217
>ftp             IN      CNAME   www
>
>
>this all looks ok, but query the domain and it says it has no SOA record.
>
>as alesi has this error on /var/log/messages when named starts up
>
>jordan is alesi's internal lan name.

The log message says that berger isn't answering authoritatively, which is
preventing jordan from performing a zone transfer:

>Dec 13 17:41:44 jordan named[25425]: refresh_callback: zone bathjobs.com/IN:
>non-authoritative answer from 217.34.194.217#53

You need to check berger's log to see why it's not loading the zone
properly.

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Barry Margolin, barmar at genuity.net
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