what does not a valid number mean

[Barry Margolin]

In article <bgorfq$1s1$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
Paul & Susan <pswheele at swbell.net> wrote:
>ok so far i got most of it done. I just have a probelm. what does not a
>valid number mean. that is what is behind my zone files in my log. copy of
>log below. can some one tell me what i did wrong please. and what i need to
>do to fix it.

You have something that doesn't look like a number in a place in the zone
files where a number is required.  These places include most of the
parameters in the SOA record, the priority value in MX records, the
optional TTL field in any resource record, and the parameter to $TTL
directive.

Since you didn't post your zone files, we have no way of telling what you
did wrong.  The problems are on line 12 of 724mediterranean.com.zone, line
12 of ns1.724mediterranean.com.zone, and line 13 of
ns2.724mediterranean.com.zone.

BTW, I'm very curious about why you have separate zone files for
ns1.724mediterranean.com and ns2.724mediterranean.com.  If these are just
hostnames, they don't usually need to be in zones of their own.

>Aug  4 15:11:46 ns1 named[4858]: dns_rdata_fromtext:
>zone/724mediterranean.com.zone:12: near '724mediterranean.com.': not a
>valid number
>Aug  4 15:11:46 ns1 named[4858]: zone 724mediterranean.com/IN: loading
>master file zone/724mediterranean.com.zone: not a valid number
>Aug  4 15:11:46 ns1 named[4858]: dns_rdata_fromtext:
>zone/ns1.724mediterranean.com.zone:12: near '724mediterranean.com.': not
>a valid number
>Aug  4 15:11:46 ns1 named[4858]: zone ns1.724mediterranean.com/IN:
>loading master file zone/ns1.724mediterranean.com.zone: not a valid
>number
>Aug  4 15:11:46 ns1 named[4858]: dns_rdata_fromtext:
>zone/ns2.724mediterranean.com.zone:13: near '724mediterranean.com.': not
>a valid number
>Aug  4 15:11:46 ns1 named[4858]: zone ns2.724mediterranean.com/IN:
>loading master file zone/ns2.724mediterranean.com.zone: not a valid
>number


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