Zone Error

Joe Kattner joe.kattner at adelphia.com
Wed Apr 10 16:41:32 UTC 2002


Richard,

The opening parenthesis needs to be on the SOA line. It appears you have it
one line below. You can wrap it over multiple lines, but it needs to start
there. If it's not a line wrap caused by e-mail, it looks like that's your
problem.

--Joe



-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Fila [mailto:richard at fila.org.uk]
Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 8:59 AM
To: comp-protocols-dns-bind at isc.org
Subject: Zone Error


Hi

I just upgraded my bind from 8.2 to 8.3.1 and now it no longer works.  My
/var/log/messages gives me these notices:

Apr 10 12:49:48 charlwoodifa-2 named[12730]: Zone "v3-computers.co.uk" (file
named.default): No default TTL ($TTL <value>) set, using SOA minimum instead
Apr 10 12:49:48 charlwoodifa-2 named[12730]: named.default:1: unexpected end
of line
Apr 10 12:49:48 charlwoodifa-2 named[12730]: named.default:1: unexpected end
of line
Apr 10 12:49:48 charlwoodifa-2 named[12730]: named.default:2: expected a
TTL, got "("
Apr 10 12:49:48 charlwoodifa-2 named[12730]: named.default: WARNING SOA
expire value is less than SOA refresh+retry (2 < 2+600)
Apr 10 12:49:48 charlwoodifa-2 named[12730]: named.default: WARNING SOA
expire value is less than refresh + 10 * retry (2 < (2 + 10 * 600))
Apr 10 12:49:48 charlwoodifa-2 named[12730]: named.default: WARNING SOA
expire value is less than 7 days (2)
Apr 10 12:49:48 charlwoodifa-2 named[12730]: named.default: WARNING SOA
refresh value is less than 2 * retry (2 < 600 * 2)
Apr 10 12:49:48 charlwoodifa-2 named[12730]: named.default:4: Database error
near ()
Apr 10 12:49:48 charlwoodifa-2 named[12730]: named.default:5: Database error
near ()
Apr 10 12:49:48 charlwoodifa-2 named[12730]: named.default:6: Database error
near ()
Apr 10 12:49:48 charlwoodifa-2 named[12730]: named.default:7: Database error
near ()
Apr 10 12:49:48 charlwoodifa-2 named[12730]: named.default: Line 8: Unknown
type: ).
Apr 10 12:49:48 charlwoodifa-2 named[12730]: named.default:8: Database error
near ())
Apr 10 12:49:48 charlwoodifa-2 named[12730]: named.default:9: Database error
near ())
Apr 10 12:49:48 charlwoodifa-2 named[12730]: named.default:10: data ""
outside zone "v3-computers.co.uk" (ignored)
Apr 10 12:49:48 charlwoodifa-2 named[12730]: named.default:11: data ""
outside zone "v3-computers.co.uk" (ignored)
Apr 10 12:49:48 charlwoodifa-2 named[12730]: named.default:12: data ""
outside zone "v3-computers.co.uk" (ignored)
Apr 10 12:49:48 charlwoodifa-2 named[12730]: named.default:13: data ""
outside zone "v3-computers.co.uk" (ignored)
Apr 10 12:49:48 charlwoodifa-2 named[12730]: Zone "v3-computers.co.uk" (file
named.default): no NS RRs found at zone top
Apr 10 12:49:48 charlwoodifa-2 named[12730]: master zone
"v3-computers.co.uk" (IN) rejected due to errors (serial 0)


*********************************
my zone file called from named.conf
*********************************

@  IN SOA ns3.planetserver.co.uk. hostmaster.ns3.planetserver.co.uk.
    (
    2002022601 ;Serial Number: YYYYMMDDxx
    80000 ;Refresh time
    3600 ;Retry Time
    604800 ;Time
    86400 ;Minimum TTL
    )

  IN NS ns3.planetserver.co.uk.
  IN NS ns4.planetserver.co.uk.
  IN MX 10 mail
  IN A 217.204.208.242
www  IN A 217.204.208.242
ftp  IN A 217.204.208.242
mail IN A 217.204.208.242

******************************

I just can't work it out - tried altering the zone file but nothing seems to
work - does anyone have a template I can use ?

Thanks
Richard



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