SOA and zone tops?

Ian Clarke ian at lara.digitalinscription.net
Wed Sep 5 09:52:27 UTC 2001


Oh yes, very good point, and thanks!

On Wed, 5 Sep 2001 Marc.Thach at radianz.com wrote:

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> I guess you've got this typo in your named.conf file "shadowededhand",
> which is why Mark doesn't like doctored output on the list.
> rgds
> Marc TXK
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>                     Ian Clarke
>                     <ian at lara.digitalinscri        To:     <bind-users at isc.org>
>                     ption.net>                     cc:
>                     Sent by:                       Subject:     Re: SOA and zone tops?
>                     bind-users-bounce at isc.o
>                     rg
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>                     05/09/2001 09:37
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> >          First try carefully reading the error message.
> >          Second if you are going to post error messages don't doctor
> >          them.
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> >          Mark
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> > --
> > Mark Andrews, Internet Software Consortium
> > 1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia
> > PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742                 INTERNET: Mark.Andrews at isc.org
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> 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:
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> 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:
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> $TTL 86400
> shadowedhand.net. IN SOA lara.digitalinscription.net.
> ian.digitalinscription.net. (
>            2001060551          ;serial
>            86400                    ;refresh
>            7200                     ;retry
>            8640000                  ;expire
>            86400 )                  ;minimum
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> shadowedhand.net.         IN NS lara.digitalinscription.net.
>                                IN NS ns.advent.com.sg.
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> www                            IN A 203.116.238.250
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> shadowedhand.net.         IN MX lara.digitalinscription.net.
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> And when I reload the nameserver I get this...
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> 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.
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> I appologise for the confusion. I was trying an abstract approach to
> understanding, which seems to have backfired.
>
> Ian
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