BIND 9 syntax error near '<quoted string>'

John Horne J.Horne at plymouth.ac.uk
Mon Mar 26 10:51:03 UTC 2001


On 23-Mar-01 at 19:47:49 Przybycien, John wrote:
> I'm running BIND 9.1.1rc4 on a Sun with Solaris 8
> and receive the following in /var/adm/messages.
> 
> /etc/name.conf:2:  syntax error near '<quoted string>'
> rndc: /etc/name.conf: failure
> 
> Here's the first few lines of name.conf:
> 
> options {
>            directory "/etc";
>            allow-transfer { none; };
>            auth-nxdomain yes;
>            };
> 
Must admit that it looks okay. If there are any 'funny characters' creeping
in there, then perhaps using 'cat -vet /etc/name.conf' will show them.

Regards,

John.

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