No SOA RR found

[Bob Vance]

As Bill said, you're at least missing a period:

--------------------.
linuxserv.bielab.com   IN  A  192.0.0.2

Thus there is no A record for your nameserver.

Try:

$ttl 38400
@  IN SOA ...
   ...
   IN NS linuxserv
linuxserv   IN A 192.0.0.2
desktop1    IN A 192.0.0.51

and let automatic parsing (like appending $ORIGIN to non-dot-terminated
names and re-use of previous-record owner names) save
your precious fingers :)



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-----Original Message-----
From: bind-users-bounce at isc.org [mailto:bind-users-bounce at isc.org]On
Behalf Of Martin
Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2001 7:46 AM
To: Jim Reid
Cc: bind-users at isc.org
Subject: Re: No SOA RR found



Hi Jim,

Thanks for the input. I'll have a look over the files again to check
everything
is where it should be. The space is there in the actual file at the moment
so
just a typo there but I will check it again.

The Webmin software is a great little web admin util that a novice Linux
user
like me couldn't do without. www.webmin.com if you ever feel the need to
check
it out.

Thanks again,

Martin

>>>>>> "Martin" == Martin  <Martin> writes:
>
>    Martin> Hi all, I'm sure this question has been asked before but I
>    Martin> have searched through the archives and can't find exactly
>    Martin> what I'm looking for. I have a bind 8.2.3-T6B running on a
>    Martin> FreeBSD box as a secondary DNS querying a bind 8.2.3-REL
>    Martin> server on a RedHat box. When the server attempts to
>    Martin> connect to the master I get the message "No SOA RR
>    Martin> found".
>
>This means the master server doesn't have a SOA record for the zone.
>Check that server's log files: there's probably a syntax error in the
>zone file.
>
>    Martin> The files were generated using Webmin...
>
>    Martin> linuxserv.bielab.com. root.linuxserv.bielab.com. (
>    Martin>	981452923
>    Martin>	10800
>    Martin>	3600
>    Martin>	432000
>    Martin>	38400)
>
>I suspect the fussier zone file parser in 8.2.3 expects white space
>between the final (TTL) element of the SOA record and the closing
>parenthesis. Your server logs will confirm this one way or the other.
>Earlier versions of BIND had a more tolerant - and also more
>inconsistent - zone file parser.
>
>If this is the problem complain to the authors of Webmin, whatever
>that is, because it's generating syntactically incorrect zone files.
>
>
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