What do these errors mean

[Pete Ehlke]

On Sat, Jun 29, 2002 at 09:53:55PM +1000, Jester wrote:
> But i do have these semicolons. It is saying they are needed at the front as
> well but i cannot find documentaion anywhere agreeing with this config
> option..

1) Stop posting to this list from a forged email address, please.

2) You have completely misread the original error message. What it's
telling you is that somewhere before line 77 of your configuration file,
there is a missing semicolon. It is decidedly *not* telling you to use
the obviously broken configuration that you've now fixated on. If you
had posted the broken config file, as you were asked to do, people here
could have debugged it for you.

-Pete

> 
> See example
> 
>     directory;"/var/named";
>         allow-query;{ any; };
>         allow-transfer;{
>                    192.168.0.0/24;
>                    easydns.com;
> 
> Notice the semi colons at the front of the statment allow-query;{ any; };
> 
> I dont know why i need to put semicolons there
> 
> Regards
> 
> Andrew
> 
> 
> "HURT, CHRIS [AG-Contractor/1000]" <chris.hurt at monsanto.com> wrote in
> message news:afiedj$5896$1 at isrv4.isc.org...
> >
> >
> > 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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