Syntax help
Mark.Andrews at nominum.com
Mark.Andrews at nominum.com
Tue May 1 00:50:36 UTC 2001
BIND 9 installs named as /usr/local/sbin/named. Your start
up scripts are most probably starting in.named. Also the
current BIND 9 release is 9.1.1.
Mark
>
> Firstly apologies for posting such a long message but this is driving me
> nuts,
> I am trying to forward any non internal queries to an external
> nameserver.
> Below is a copy of my named.conf and below that, output from my syslog.
> in.named will not start
> Syslog says it starting bind 8.1.2 even though I built bind 9.1.0. on
> a clean machine.(solaris X86)
> Also, there are a number of syntax errors, even though I have pasted all
> of named.conf from
> what I believe to be working configurations.
> any help (as always) would be much appreciated,
> Jim.
>
>
> 1 acl internals { 10.160.1.0/24; };
> 2 acl externals {192.111.39.1; };
> 3
> 4 controls {
> 5 inet 127.0.0.1 allow { localhost; } keys { namedkey; };
> 6 };
> 7
> 8 key namedkey {
> 9 algorithm "hmac-md5";
> 10 secret "0Q5eU/udkwriiY4kC3mqXw==";
> 11 };
> 12
> 13 options {
> 14 directory "/var/named"; //working directory
> 15 pid-file "named.pid"; //put pid file in the
> working di
> rectory
> 16 forward only;
> 17 forwarders { 192.111.39.1; }; // forward to external
> servers
> 18 allow-transfer { none; };
> 19 allow-query { internals; externals; };
> 20 allow-recursion { internals; }; // restrict recursion
> 21 };
> 22
> 23 logging {
> 24 channel namedlog {
> 25 file "var/log/named.log" versions 5 size 2m;
> 26 print-time yes;
> 27 print-category yes;
> 28 };
> 29 category xfer-out { namedlog; };
> 30 category panic { namedlog; };
> 31 category security { namedlog; };
> 32 category insist { namedlog; };
> 33 category response-checks { namedlog; };
> 34 };
> 35 zone "test.ie." {
> 36 type master;
> 37 file "internal";
> 38 forwarders { }; // do normal
> iterative
> 39 allow-query { internals; externals; };
> 40 allow-transfer { internals; };
> 41 };
>
> Apr 30 19:13:08 dnsdub named[729]: [ID 295310 daemon.notice] starting.
> in.named BIND 8.1.2 Tue Dec 21 23:32:09 PST 1999
> Apr 30 19:13:08 dnsdub Generic-5.8-February 2000
> Apr 30 19:13:08 dnsdub named[729]: [ID 295310 daemon.error]
> /etc/named.conf:4: syntax error near 'controls'
> Apr 30 19:13:08 dnsdub named[729]: [ID 295310 daemon.error]
> /etc/named.conf:20: syntax error near 'allow-recursion'
> Apr 30 19:13:08 dnsdub named[729]: [ID 295310 daemon.error]
> /etc/named.conf:21: syntax error near '}'
> Apr 30 19:13:08 dnsdub named[729]: [ID 295310 daemon.error]
> /etc/named.conf:38: syntax error near forwarders
> Apr 30 19:13:08 dnsdub named[731]: [ID 295310 daemon.notice] Ready to
> answer queries.
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Mark Andrews, Nominum Inc.
1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia
PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742 INTERNET: Mark.Andrews at nominum.com
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