incomprehensible error message starting 9.2.0/FreeBSD4.3

[Pete Ehlke]

On Wed, Aug 07, 2002 at 12:07:24PM -0400, Marc Kandel wrote:
> 
> i did find my problem though ... someone had added an entry in ALL CAPS =
> for a domain we already had without caps (ie. we had biz.com and =
> BIZ.COM) so named was choking on the duplicate entry.  i had written a =
> script to look at named.conf, grab all the domainnames (from the zone =
> entries) to see if there were any duplicates ... as far as UNIX goes, =
> the case sensitivity caused no domains to show twice ... a "grep -i" =
> would have saved me a lot of time ...
> 
named-checkconf is your friend. Consider processing your named.conf
through it first, before starting or reconfiguring your server. There's
really no reason at all any more for name servers to refuse to start due
to config or zone file errors.

-Pete