Almost There ...

Doug Barton DougB at DougBarton.net
Mon May 21 19:24:12 UTC 2001


Desmond Coughlan wrote:
> 
> Le 22.05.01, Mark.Andrews at nominum.com a écrit :
> 
> >       Your confusion is that you were thinking that the last
> >       field of the SOA record was the TTL.  It is not.  It is
> >       called "MINIMUM" and it is not optional.
> >
> >       The TTL, if explicitly there, is after the owner name.
> >       e.g.  0.0.127.in-addr.arpa. 3600 SOA ...
> >       Every record has a TTL.
> 
> Ahhhh !!!
> 
> So there was a field missing ...
> 
> I copied the example you gave me, and my error message now is ...
> 
> # dmesg |grep -i named
> May 21 16:28:54 dnsx /usr/local/sbin/named[174]: [ID 866145 daemon.notice]
> starting BIND 9.1.2
> May 21 16:28:57 dnsx /usr/local/sbin/named[174]: [ID 866145
> daemon.warning] the default for the 'auth-nxdomain' option is now 'no'
> May 21 16:28:57 dnsx /usr/local/sbin/named[174]: [ID 866145 daemon.error]
> dns_rdata_fromtext: company.internal.com.db:6: near
> 'smtp.company.internal.com.': unexpected token
> May 21 16:28:57 dnsx /usr/local/sbin/named[174]: [ID 866145 daemon.error]
> dns_zone_load: zone company.internal.com/IN: loading master file
> company.internal.com.db: unexpected token
> 
> The file in question, looks like this ...
> 
> # cat company.internal.com.db
> $TTL 3600
> company.internal.com.   SOA dnsx.company.internal.com. dns.company.com. (
>                                     2000051800 86400 7200 3600000 10800 )
> company.internal.com.   NS      dnsx.company.internal.com.
> company.internal.com.   NS      cork.company.us.com.
> company.internal.com.   MX      smtp.company.internal.com.

	Your MX record is missing the preference value. Make it look like this:

company.internal.com. MX 50 smtp.company.internal.com.


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