master zone "in-addr.arpa" (IN) rejected due to errors

[zoe.goodchild at bexley.gov.uk]

Hi,

Many thanks for the reply.

this is an edited exceprt from the db.root file. The original file is
very long and appears to include information about printers and client
PCs. The PCs start with the BoS_nnnnn. As you can see there are a few
of the BOS_ entries that you say are not allowed.


@	IN	SOA	.	root.jupiter.
(
		1		; serial number
		10400		; refresh after 3 hours
		3600		; retry after 1 hour
		604800		; expire after 1 week
		86400	)	; minimum TTL of 1 day
		IN	NS	.
                IN      NS      localhost.
127.0.0.1               IN      PTR     localhost.
jupiter.	IN	A	172.xx.x.x
jupiter.	IN	A	172.xx.x.x

BoS_01687.	IN	A	172.xx.xx.xxx
BoS_01014.	IN	A	172.xx.xx.xxx
BoS_01691.	IN	A	172.xx.xx.xxx
BoS_01692.	IN	A	172.xx.xx.xxx
BoS_PRINTSERV2.	IN	A	172.xx.xx.xxx
BoS_PRINTSER.	IN	A	172.xx.xx.xxx
BoS_01690.	IN	A	172.xx.xx.xxx
BoS_.	IN	A	172.xx.xx.xxx
BoS_00993.	IN	A	172.xx.xx.xxx

I've edited out the IP's.

- zoe

Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 06:59:06AM -0700,
>  zoe.goodchild at bexley.gov.uk <zoe.goodchild at bexley.gov.uk> wrote
>  a message of 39 lines which said:
>
> > Sep  2 10:22:31 jupiter named[218]: owner name "BoS_" IN (primary) is
> > invalid - rejecting
>
> It would be interesting to see the file db.root... Remember that the
> underscore (_) is not valid in host names.