BIND 9.2 little problem

Danny Mayer mayer at gis.net
Sat Feb 9 01:25:13 UTC 2002


It's amazing that noone pointed out to you that "//" is not a comment
introducer for the zone file.  Change it and the "#" character to ";"
and things will work.

         Danny

At 04:21 AM 2/8/02, phn at icke-reklam.ipsec.nu wrote:

>r_no at hotmail.com wrote:
>
> > Hi gurur,
> > Well ok, I'm dumb, I'm unable to start even the simpliest DB file, I
> > still got an erro messages on the log file:
> > Feb  8 09:06:11 darkstar named[2392]: [ID 866145 daemon.notice] starting
> > BIND 9.2.0 -f
> > Feb  8 09:06:11 darkstar named[2392]: [ID 866145 daemon.notice] command
> > channel listening on 127.0.0.1#953
> > Feb  8 09:06:11 darkstar named[2392]: [ID 866145 daemon.error]
> > dns_master_load: db.127.0.0:2: unexpected end of line
> > Feb  8 09:06:11 darkstar named[2392]: [ID 866145 daemon.error]
> > dns_master_load: db.127.0.0:1: unexpected end of input
> > Feb  8 09:06:11 darkstar named[2392]: [ID 866145 daemon.error] zone
> > 0.0.127.in-addr.arpa/IN: loading master file db.127.0.0: unexpected end
> > of input
>
>Reading the log output _sometimes_ gives a clue about what's going wrong.
>
>
> > here is the named.conf:
> > options {
> >         directory "/opt/named";
> >         pid-file "/opt/named/named.pid";
> >         forwarders  { 192.168.21.2;10.137.142.147; };
> >         forward only;
> > };
>
> > zone "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa" in {
> >         type master;
> >         file "db.127.0.0";
> > };
>
> > Here is the file db.127.0.0:
> > //=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=
=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D
> > // Local server zone information  (db.127.0.0)
> > //=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=
=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D
> > bames.ch.       IN      SOA     darkstar.bames.ch. postmaster.bames.ch.
> > (
>
>   ^^
>here is one problem. This should be the last character on the preceeding=
 line,
>not an alone character on it's own line.
>
>You are also lacking a "$TTL 86400" as first line.
>
>
>
> >                                 0108022002     ; Serial No.
> >                                 3h   ; Refresh
> >                                 1h    ; Retry
> >                                 1w ; Expire
> >                                 1h ) ; Minimum
>
> > #DNS server record
> >         IN      NS      darkstar.bames.ch.
>
> > # PTR record
> > 1       IN      PTR     localhost.bames.ch.
>
>
> > I'm still unable to find whats wrong with this file, I didn't play with
> > DNS since the release 4 but I wasn't expected that It has so mutch
> > change on it. I use tab to separate the filed (i remember having trouble
> > with 4.x on OSF/1 about that).
>
> > Thanks for the help.
>
> > Arno
>
>See ripe document 192 ( DNS setup example ) for more details.
>
>
>--
>Peter H=E5kanson
>         IPSec  Sverige      (At the Riverside of Gothenburg, home of=
 Volvo)
>            Sorry about my e-mail address, but i'm trying to keep spam out.
>            Remove "icke-reklam" and it works.



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