Mutiple Domains in a zone file

[Barry Finkel]

"john" <johnmccoyjr at gmail.com> wrote:

>Yes I asked that, sounds crazy to me but this is what has been dropped
>in my lap.
>
>Current setup is running on Solaris 7 and 8 with BIND 8
>
>named.conf: (from master)
> zone "school.edu" in {
>        type master;
>        check-names ignore;
>        file "school.hosts";
>};
>
> zone "school.net" in {
>        type master;
>        file "school.hosts";
>};
>
> zone "school.org" in {
>        type master;
>        file "school.hosts";
>};
>
>I'm setting up a slave on BIND 9.2.x; figured it would just say I was
>crazy and not allow it but it does start up with this warning:
>
>Jan  3 09:46:25 ns2-new named[6148]: starting BIND 9.2.4 -u named
>Jan  3 09:46:25 ns2-new named[6148]: using 2 CPUs
>Jan  3 09:46:25 ns2-new named: named startup succeeded
>Jan  3 09:46:25 ns2-new named[6148]: loading configuration from
>'/etc/named.conf'
>Jan  3 09:46:25 ns2-new named[6148]: listening on IPv4 interface lo, 127.0.0.1#53
>Jan  3 09:46:25 ns2-new named[6148]: listening on IPv4 interface eth0, 10.7.1.72#53
>Jan  3 09:46:25 ns2-new named[6148]: command channel listening on 127.0.0.1#953
>Jan  3 09:46:25 ns2-new named[6148]: zone 0.0.143.in-addr.arpa/IN: loaded serial 5
>Jan  3 09:46:25 ns2-new named[6148]: zone 3.1.192.in-addr.arpa/IN: loaded serial 2005101901
>Jan  3 09:46:25 ns2-new named[6148]: zone 4.1.192.in-addr.arpa/IN: loaded serial 2005092301
>Jan  3 09:46:25 ns2-new named[6148]: zone 5.1.192.in-addr.arpa/IN: loaded serial 2005112801
>Jan  3 09:46:25 ns2-new named[6148]: zone 6.6.67.in-addr.arpa/IN: loaded serial 2004051901
>Jan  3 09:46:25 ns2-new named[6148]: dns_master_load: school.hosts:14: school.net: not at top of zone
>Jan  3 09:46:25 ns2-new named[6148]: zone school.edu/IN: loading master file school.hosts: not at top of zone
>Jan  3 09:46:25 ns2-new named[6148]: zone school.edu/IN: saved 'school.hosts' as 'db-XXBt3Xvt'
>Jan  3 09:46:25 ns2-new named[6148]: running
>
>The oddest thing is on one boot the top will be .org then next time it is.net
>In time the whole setup will be on BIND 9, is there a better way to do this???
>We only use .edu the others are just protection.
>
>Thanks

Please post the school.hosts file so that we can check its contents.
If you are using the same file for three different zones, then you need
to insure that everything inside the zone file is relative.
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