Problem with BIND 9.2.1 Logging

[Barry Finkel]

I wrote (lines with ">>" prefix):
and Peter Håkanson replied (lines with ">" prefix):
My reply to Peter is at the end.

>> I am having a problem with BIND 9.2.1 and logging.  I have two Solaris
>> 5.6 systems.  One one (a slave server), when I tested BIND 9.2.1 I saw
>> these messages in /var/adm/messages (reformatted as to not wrap):

>>      Jul  1 12:57:11 titania.ctd.anl.gov named[11253]:
>>        starting BIND 9.2.1 -c /export/home/named/named.conf.titania
>>      Jul  1 12:58:32 titania.ctd.anl.gov named[11253]: net174.rev:6:
>>        no TTL specified; using SOA MINTTL instead
>>      Jul  1 13:00:53 titania.ctd.anl.gov named[11253]: running

>The "using SOA MINTTL instead" means that teh zonefile lacks "$TTL" at zone
>top, but instead of refusing to load as previous bind-9 did, it warns. Strange
>however that it says so about a slave zone ... Is there a possibility
>of mixup here ?

>> On the hidden master, I get these messages:

>>      Jul  2 07:15:25 puck.ctd.anl.gov named[21131]:
>>        loading configuration from '/export/home/named/named.conf.puck'
>>      Jul  2 07:15:47 puck.ctd.anl.gov named[21131]:
>>        zone tis.anl.gov/IN: loaded serial 2002070102

>> On the master, I do not get the "starting" nor "running" messages.

>No they are gone with bind-9. There is a class "general" that seems to
>occur :
>May  8 19:52:39 ns named[9648]: general: running
>( not shure of loglevel to get this printed)
>
>In general, the logmessages are quite different from bind-8. Sometimes
>it's something lacking, but mostly it's better(imho).

When I start BIND 9.2.1 on titania (slave), I get these two messages

       Jul  1 12:57:11 titania.ctd.anl.gov named[11253]:
         starting BIND 9.2.1 -c /export/home/named/named.conf.titania
       Jul  1 13:00:53 titania.ctd.anl.gov named[11253]: running

which obviously are produced by BIND 9.2.1; I do not get those messages
on the master.  I will reboot the hidden master soon (it has gone 210
days since the last reboot), as there might be some recent maintenance
that is not yet operational.  Once I am able to see the "starting" and
"running" messages on the master, then I will see what other messages
on the master I might have also been missing.  Then I will try to
diagnose why I am getting the TTL messages on the slave but not on the
master.
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Barry S. Finkel
Electronics and Computing Technologies Division
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