Mis-ordered SOA

[Mark Jones]

On 5 Feb 2004 01:08:22 -0800
stephenwvickers at hotmail.com (Steve) wrote:
> Jan 18 12:36:42 dns1.ham.steve.com named[362]: mis-ordered SOAs for
> zone ham.steve.com
> Jan 18 12:36:42 dns1.ham.steve.com named[362]: print_output:
> unparseable answer (1), zone ham.steve.com
> Jan 18 12:36:42 dns1.ham.steve.com named[362]: IXFR failed, switching
> to AXFR

I've never seen that error before, but I do see that the SOA record in
the ham.steve.com zone is for "steve.com." not "ham.steve.com." Perhaps
that's the problem.

$ dig ham.steve.com soa

; <<>> DiG 8.3 <<>> ham.steve.com soa 
;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch
;; got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 4
;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; QUERY SECTION:
;;      ham.steve.com, type = SOA, class = IN

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
steve.com.              1H IN SOA       slave1.dns.stargate.net. hostmaster.stargate.net. (
                                        2003120201      ; serial
                                        1H              ; refresh
                                        15M             ; retry
                                        1W              ; expiry
                                        1H )            ; minimum


;; Total query time: 117 msec
;; FROM: magnesium to SERVER: default -- 167.142.225.5
;; WHEN: Fri Feb  6 08:31:20 2004
;; MSG SIZE  sent: 31  rcvd: 113



Mark A Jones
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