SOA and zone tops?

[Ian Clarke]

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>
> 	First try carefully reading the error message.
> 	Second if you are going to post error messages don't doctor
> 	them.
>
> 	Mark
>
> --
> Mark Andrews, Internet Software Consortium
> 1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia
> PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742                 INTERNET: Mark.Andrews at isc.org
>

Sorry Mark,

I'm only doctoring the names as I'm trying to understand the concept, not
the real world entities. Okay, just to explain further (with the real
world names), this is what I have:

I have registered shadowedhand.net as a domain, with my primary nameserver
being lara.digitalinscription.net (203.116.238.252) and my first
secondary being ns.advent.com.sg (203.116.238.1). A whois confirms that
this data is in the whois database. The nameserver on
lara.digitalinscription.net has the following zone file for
shadowedhand.net:

$TTL 86400
shadowedhand.net. IN SOA lara.digitalinscription.net. ian.digitalinscription.net. (
	2001060551	;serial
	86400		;refresh
	7200		;retry
	8640000		;expire
	86400 )		;minimum

shadowedhand.net.	IN NS lara.digitalinscription.net.
			IN NS ns.advent.com.sg.

www			IN A 203.116.238.250

shadowedhand.net.	IN MX lara.digitalinscription.net.


And when I reload the nameserver I get this...

Sep  5 16:32:35 lara named[157]: reloading nameserver
Sep  5 16:32:35 lara named[157]: db.shadowedhand.net:2: SOA for
"shadowedhand.net" not at zone top "shadowededhand.net"
Sep  5 16:32:35 lara named[157]: Zone "shadowededhand.net" (file
db.shadowedhand.net): no NS RRs found at zone top
Sep  5 16:32:35 lara named[157]: master zone "shadowededhand.net" (IN)
rejected due to errors (serial 2001090551)
Sep  5 16:32:35 lara named[157]: Ready to answer queries.


I appologise for the confusion. I was trying an abstract approach to
understanding, which seems to have backfired.

Ian