Interpreting syslog message: not at top of zone

Rich Parkin RParkin at ldmi.com
Wed Apr 14 16:43:06 UTC 2004


Hello all!

I'm getting a non-fatal error message whenever I start BIND.  It's
obviously a configuration error on my part, but I'm embarrassed to say I
can't figure out what I'm doing wrong.

The error message is:

# Apr 14 15:52:00 unknown named[439]: dns_master_load: 0.0.127.db:14:
localhost: not at top of zone
Apr 14 15:52:00 unknown named[439]: zone 0.0.127.in-addr.arpa/IN:
loading master file 0.0.127.db: not at top of zone

The snippet from my named.conf is -

zone "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa" IN {
        type master;
        file "0.0.127.db";
        notify no;
        allow-update { none; };
};

And here is the content of the zone -

$TTL 86400 ; default TTL (24 hours)
$ORIGIN localhost.
@ IN SOA localhost. root.localhost. (
                2004032901
                10800
                3600
                604800
                86400 )

        IN NS localhost.

1       IN      PTR     localhost.

localhost resolves to 127.0.0.1 but I can't resolve 127.0.0.1 back to
localhost and I get a SERVFAIL message when I try it.  Can anyone tell
me what I'm doing wrong and what "not at top of zone" actually means?

Thanks in advance,

Richard Parkin
System Administrator
CCNA
Data Center Operations
LDMI Telecommunications


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