$INCLUDE of soa causes 'no owner' error

[Barry Margolin]

In article <9rptfg$ii7 at pub3.rc.vix.com>, Thomas Schulz <schulz at adi.com> wrote:
>
>I am running BIND 9.2.0rc8 on a Solaris 7 machine.  I have several zone
>files that are almost identical and was trying to use the $INCLUDE
>directive to move the common parts into a few files.  I had trouble
>when I tried to put the soa record in an include file.  The error was:
>
>Oct 31 15:14:58 bluegill in.named[28820]: dns_master_load:
>192.168.2.revhosts.int:6: no current owner name
>Oct 31 15:14:58 bluegill in.named[28820]: zone 2.168.192.in-addr.arpa/IN:
>loading master file 192.168.2.revhosts.int: no owner
>
>The zone file was as follows:
>
>$TTL    86400
>; 3600 = one hour,  86400 = one day,  604800 = one week, 2678400 = one month
>$INCLUDE soa.revhosts
>                in      ns      bluegill.adi.com.

Try changing that to:

@                in      ns      bluegill.adi.com.

I think it doesn't like doing a continuation from the $INCLUDE file.  I can
kind of understand that -- it can be dangerous to depend on what the last
record in the include file was.

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Barry Margolin, barmar at genuity.net
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