include statement in named.conf

[Mark Andrews]

> 
> On Sep 29, 2005, at 5:36 PM, Storming Norman wrote:
> 
> > I have a customer (Hosting DNS 4 Us) that has over 200 zones grouped
> > under several different company names in my named.conf file. I decided
> > to gather all of them together into one file and reference the file
> > with the include statement in named.conf. However, when I make changes
> > to one of the zones and attempt to do an ndc reload of the particular
> > zone, I receive the following error:
> >
> > # ./ndc reload myzone.com
> > myzone.com not found in named.conf. Note: CaSe SeNsItIvItY!
> >
> > This is a snippet of the include file containing the referenced zone:
> >
> > ~
> > };
> > zone "myzone.com" {
> >         type master;
> >         file "dia/db.myzone.com";
> > };
> > ~
> >
> > And this is the line in named.conf referencing the include file:
> >
> > // Hosting DNS 4 Us (111.222.111.222/26)
> > include "/var/named/myzone.master.include";
> 
> syntax error
> should be;
> 
> $INCLUDE        myzone.master.include
> 
> or
> 
> $INCLUDE        /var/named/myzone.master.include

	No.  That is master file syntax not named.conf syntax.

> >
> > NOTE: I only have this problem on the master server. The slave  
> > servers'
> > include files seem to be read without a problem. All servers are
> > running Bind 9.2.3 on Solaris 8. Permissions on the include file are
> > 644.
> >
> > Does anyone have any ideas what is causing this problem?
> 
> 
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