Zone records are not loading

[Barry Margolin]

In article <c26f49$e28$1 at sf1.isc.org>, Jays <vangogh at san.rr.com> wrote:

> Evening everyone.
> 
> I'm not sure what is going on, but for some reason, i can't seem to get 
> BIND to load my zone records. I've read and re-read all of my files, 
> just to make sure I wasn't going crazy. I dont know what it is. The logs 
> show no activity of zone records being loaded. I double checked my files 
> by asking a colleague to verify. We didn't find any errors.

You're missing the close brace for the "options" statement.  I'm 
surprised there's no log message for mismatched braces and unrecognized 
options.

> 
> BTW, the system is FreeBSD 4.9,
> BIND named 8.3.6-REL Mon Oct 27 14:55:35 GMT 2003 
> root at freebsd-stable.sentex.ca:/usr/obj/usr/src/usr.sbin/named
> 
> I wont beat around the bush. I'll post my information here.
> 
> named.conf
> 
> // $FreeBSD: src/etc/namedb/named.conf,v 1.6.2.7 2003/02/13 13:16:51 
> keramida Exp $
> 
> options {
>          directory "/etc/namedb";
> 
> 
> /*
>          forwarders {
>                  24.25.195.1;
>                  24.25.195.3;
>          };
> */
> 
> 
> zone "." {
>          type hint;
>          file "named.root";
> };
> 
> zone "0.0.127.IN-ADDR.ARPA" {
>          type master;
>          file "localhost.rev";
> };
> 
> zone "private.familyhome.com" {
>     type master;
>     file "family.db";
> };
> 
> zone "168.192.in-addr.arpa" {
>     type master;
>     file "168.192.db";
> };
> 
> 
> family.db information:
> 
> $TTL 604800
> @ 864000 IN SOA liquidmail.private.familyhome.com. 
> root.liquidmail.private.familyhome.com. (
>          200103021       ; serial
>          10800   ; refresh after 3 hours
>          3600    ; retry after 1 hour
>          604800  ; expire after 1 week
>          86400 ) ; minimum ttl of 1 day
> 
> @       IN A  192.168.111.100
> @       IN NS liquidmail.private.familyhome.com.
> 
> private.familyhome.com.            IN NS  liquidmail.private.familyhome.com.
> ;
> ; Name to address mappings
> ;
> localhost.private.familyhome.com.  IN A   127.0.0.1
> ;
> ; liquidmail
> ;
> liquidmail.private.familyhome.com.    IN A   192.168.111.100
> ;
> ; all other entries
> ;
> boxer.private.familyhome.com.      IN A   192.168.111.2
> 
> When I restart named:
> 
> Mar  4 19:16:28 liquidmail named[181]: starting 
> (/etc/namedb/named.conf).  named 8.3.6-REL Mon Oct 27 14:55:35 GMT 2003 
>          root at freebsd-stable.sentex.ca:/usr/obj/usr/src/usr.sbin/named
> Mar  4 19:16:28 liquidmail named[181]: limit files set to fdlimit (1024)
> Mar  4 19:16:28 liquidmail named[182]: Ready to answer queries.
> Mar  4 19:16:29 liquidmail named[182]: check_hints: A records for 
> B.ROOT-SERVERS.NET class 1 do not match hint records
> 
> No zones are being loaded...
> 
> Anyone have any idea? I am at my wits end here and hair pulling has begun.
> 
> I appreciate it.
> 
> J.

-- 
Barry Margolin, barmar at alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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