Am getting errors with my zone files. Any pointers?

[Andris Kalnozols]

> At 3:51 AM +0000 7/13/01, Daniel Keith Du Vall wrote:
> 
> >  Jul 12 20:06:22 quadlinux named[937]: sysquery: findns error (NXDOMAIN) on
> >  ns.quadtrax.net?
> >
> Brad Knowles wrote:
>
> 	Is quadlinux the same machine as ns.quadtrax.com?  If so, then it 
> needs to show up in the DNS as resolving to the same IP address, in 
> which case BIND should be able to figure out that this is the same 
> machine.

h2n -v quadtrax.net

Verifying zone data for domain 'quadtrax.net'.
Getting NS RRset...
Transferring zone... (from 'NS.quadtrax.net' [216.216.115.27])
Parsing zone data... (NS BIND version: 8.2.3-REL)
Performing in-zone and external lookups...

Warning: found the following problematic SOA time interval(s):
 SOA refresh value is less than SOA retry * 2 (1h < (1h * 2)).
Warning: found NS RR(s) pointing to the following problematic domain name(s):
 ns.quadtrax.net.                       [no A record ]
Warning: verifying the NS delegations generated the following error(s):
 Server ns1.granitecanyon.com is not authoritative for quadtrax.net
 No response from ns2.granitecanyon.com (domain quadtrax.net)

Your zone data has the following NS record:

quadtrax.net.           NS      ns.quadtrax.net.

but is missing the following A record:

ns.quadtrax.net.        A       216.216.115.27

This should make the 'findns' error go away.

Andris Kalnozols
Hewlett-Packard Laboratories
andris at hpl.hp.com