ignoring out-of-zone data and MX records

Mark.Andrews at nominum.com Mark.Andrews at nominum.com
Fri Mar 16 01:00:40 UTC 2001


> I guess the question is:  How do you enter "out of zone" information,
> such as NS and MX records?  They simply do not show up in a query.

	Well you problem below were the A records.  Also given that this
	was only part of the zone.  Since you are flagging multiple errors
	you are also most probably not driving named-checkzone correctly
	and generating suprious errors as a result.

	e.g.
		named-checkzone newexample.com external.hosts

	Mark

> 
> In article <98p8or$5s2 at pub3.rc.vix.com>, <Mark.Andrews at nominum.com> writes:
> >
> >	The line number is a indication only.
> >
> >	In this case host1.example.com and www.example.com are not
> >	part of newexample.com.
> >
> >	Mark
> >
> >> I am trying to upgrade to bind 9.1.0 from bind 8.2.3 and am running
> >> into tons of little incompatibility problems.  One has to do with
> >> MX records that point to hosts that are in a different domain.  I have
> >> one host that acts as a placeholder for about 20 domains.
> >> 
> >> Consider the following from the zone file for one of them, newexample.com
> >> 
> >> =============================================================
> >> 	IN	NS	host1.example.com.
> >> 	IN	NS	www.example.com.		*
> >> 
> >> host1.example.com.	A	192.168.10.2
> >> www.example.com.	A	192.168.10.4		*
> >> 
> >> newexample.com.	IN	MX 10 host1.example.com.	*
> >> 
> >> www		A	192.168.10.4			*
> >> ================================================================
> >> 
> >> The lines flagged with [*] get the following error.
> >> 
> >> dns_master_load: external.hosts:26: ignoring out-of-zone data
> >> 
> >> dig only lists the SOA for the zone, nothing else.
> >> 
> >> Linolil
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 
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