What do these errors mean

[HURT, CHRIS [AG-Contractor/1000]]

Exactly what they say - you're missing semi-colons at end of line (or end of
element) - named.conf should use them like this:

options {
        directory "/etc/somewhere";
        pid-file "/etc/somewhere.pid";
        version "UNKNOWN";
        allow-query { any; };
        blackhole { bogon; };
        allow-transfer { transfer; };
        transfer-format many-answers;
        interface-interval 0;
};

zone "." {
        type hint;
        file "cache.db";
};

zone "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa" {
        type master;
        file "127.0.0.rev.db";
};

Note the ;

HTH,
Chris
-----Original Message-----
From: Jester [mailto:admin at invalid.com]
Sent: Friday, June 28, 2002 9:16 AM
To: comp-protocols-dns-bind at isc.org
Subject: What do these errors mean


I have been advised i dont need these but when i remove them i am getting
these errors in my messages file. Running Bind 9.2.1 updated from bind 8.2.3

Jun 29 00:12:37 Echelon named[24993]: /etc/named.conf:77: missing ';' before
'master'
Jun 29 00:12:37 Echelon named[24993]: /etc/named.conf:78: missing ';' before
'file'
Jun 29 00:12:37 Echelon named[24993]: /etc/named.conf:78: missing ';' before
'"'
Jun 29 00:12:37 Echelon named[24993]: /etc/named.conf:79: missing ';' before
'allow-update'
Jun 29 00:12:37 Echelon named[24993]: /etc/named.conf:79: missing ';' before
'{'
Jun 29 00:12:37 Echelon named[24993]: /etc/named.conf:82: missing ';' before
'"'
Jun 29 00:12:37 Echelon named[24993]: /etc/named.conf:82: missing ';' before
'IN'
Jun 29 00:12:37 Echelon named[24993]: /etc/named.conf:93: expected IP match
list element near end of file
Jun 29 00:12:37 Echelon named[24993]: loading configuration: unexpected
token
Jun 29 00:12:37 Echelon named[24993]: exiting (due to fatal error)

When i do a       /etc/rc.d/init.d/named. start     it is saying it is
starting

Regards

Andrew


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