error in log

[Barry Margolin]

In article <9r8c58$lea at pub3.rc.vix.com>,
Allan T. Parreno <allan at fapenet.org> wrote:
>hello ppl,
>
>I got this error message at my log file, what does it mean?
>
>Oct 25 12:52:50 calvin named[205]: Err/TO getting serial# for
>"255-128.230.134.202.in-addr.arpa"
>Oct 25 12:52:50 calvin named-xfer[876]: [202.134.230.131] no SOA found for
>255-128.230.134.202.in-addr.arpa, SOA query got rcode 3, aa 1, ancount 0,
>aucount 1
>Oct 25 12:52:51 calvin named-xfer[876]: [202.134.230.130] no SOA found for
>255-128.230.134.202.in-addr.arpa, SOA query got rcode 3, aa 1, ancount 0,
>aucount 1
>
>for more info here's the part of my named.conf
>
>---
>
>zone "255-128.230.134.202.in-addr.arpa" {
>        type slave;
>        file "db.202.134.230.128-255";
>        masters { 202.134.230.131; 202.134.230.130; };
>        allow-transfer { none; };
>};

There's a problem with the zone on the master server.  Specifically, it's
configured as the master for 230.134.202.in-addr.arpa, not the subdomain
255-128.230.134.202.in-addr.arpa.

There's another problem: the fapenet.org servers don't have the CNAME
records that point into this subdomain.

BTW, although naming of RFC 2317 subdomains is arbitrary, it's more common
to name it something like 128-255 or 128/25.  I see what you're doing with
255-128 -- you've reversed around the '-'.  But it's customary only to
reverse at the '.' characters, because other tools know about this.
E.g. you can do:

dig -x 202.134.230.128-255 soa

Dig's -x option knows how to translate this to the in-addr.arpa name by
reversing at '.'s, but it won't swap the 128 and 255 automatically.

-- 
Barry Margolin, barmar at genuity.net
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