$GENERATE and reverse zone delegations

Mark_Andrews at isc.org Mark_Andrews at isc.org
Tue Jul 16 22:07:42 UTC 2002


> 
> Hello,
> 
> I would like to use the nice $GENERATE feature to configure a bunch of
> reverse zone delegations.
> 
> I am using BIND 8.3.1 and tried to delegate the reverse zones
> 10.241.224/24 to 10.241.231/24 with the following statements:
> 
> $GENERATE 224-231 $.241.10.in-addr.arpa. IN NS  my.first.child.server.
> $GENERATE 224-231 $.241.10.in-addr.arpa. IN NS 
> my.second.child.server.
> 
> BIND refuses to load the parent zone.
> A debug gives:
> 
> 241.10.in-addr.arpa.db: Line 175: $GENERATE unknown type: IN.
> 241.10.in-addr.arpa.db: Line 176: $GENERATE unknown type: IN.
> 
> Why is BIND complaining about the type IN? Am I missing something
> here?


	'IN' is not a TYPE, it is a CLASS.  $GENERATE does not take
	a CLASS.  REmove the 'IN's.
 
	Mark

> Regards,
> Andre Schneickert
> 
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