error: bad dotted quad
Mark Andrews
Mark_Andrews at isc.org
Thu Dec 7 22:55:20 UTC 2006
> I made a change to DNS and added this record:
> IN A usnlbc.us.publicus.com.
>
>
>
> and I'm getting this error:
>
> 07-Dec-2006 14:30:30.266 general: error: dns_rdata_fromtext:
> /master/kingcountyjournal.com.hosts:24: near 'usnlbc.us.publicus.com.': bad
> dotted quad
> 07-Dec-2006 14:30:30.270 general: error: zone kingcountyjournal.com/IN:
> loading master file /master/kingcountyjournal.com.hosts: bad dotted quad
>
>
> Am I doing something wrong here?
Yes.
usnlbc.us.publicus.com is not a IPv4 address (dotted quad),
it is a domain name.
You want:
IN A 209.225.11.186
Note as you are inheriting the owner name from other records you
can't use a CNAME here as it would violate RFC 1034.
Mark
> --Bryan
>
>
>
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