Bind Errors (8.2.3)

Mark_Andrews at isc.org Mark_Andrews at isc.org
Mon Nov 12 05:39:35 UTC 2001


> Hi,
> 
> This morning I experienced a strange problem with my named. I had a server 
> which I wanted to
> convert to a slave. So I did vi named.conf and substituted all zone types f
> rom master to slave:
> 
> :g/type master;/s//type slave; masters { 62.8.64.4; };/g
> 
> After that I wnet into /var/named (this is a Linux box) and did rm-ed all z
> one files in there.

	It sounds like you blew away more than you should have.  It
	looks like the hints are gone.

> After that I reloaded named, then went to watch the log-file, bind-xfer.log
> . This is what I
> saw..
> 
> [snip]
> 
> 12-Nov-2001 09:12:07.203 default: info: sysquery: nlookup error on ?
> 12-Nov-2001 09:12:08.051 load: info: slave zone "essafari.com" (IN) loaded 
> (serial 2001020701)
> 12-Nov-2001 09:12:08.051 load: info: slave zone "soundtraxx.co.ke" (IN) loa
> ded (serial 2001102201)
> 12-Nov-2001 09:12:08.052 load: info: slave zone "lazardscyber.com" (IN) loa
> ded (serial 2001020701)
> 12-Nov-2001 09:12:08.061 load: info: slave zone "countysafaris.com" (IN) lo
> aded (serial 2001020701)
> 12-Nov-2001 09:12:08.089 default: info: sysquery: nlookup error on ?
> 12-Nov-2001 09:12:08.269 default: info: sysquery: nlookup error on ?
> 12-Nov-2001 09:12:08.646 default: info: sysquery: nlookup error on ?
> 12-Nov-2001 09:12:08.696 default: info: sysquery: nlookup error on ?
> 12-Nov-2001 09:12:08.810 default: info: sysquery: nlookup error on ?
> 12-Nov-2001 09:12:09.021 xfer-in: info: Err/TO getting serial# for "restora
> tion-africa.or.ke"
> [/snip]
> 
> 
> What is the issue with "nlookup error on ?" here ?
> I've never seen that before ;)
> 
> TIA
> 
> 
> -Wash
> 
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