"zone already exists" error preventing reload

Mark Andrews Mark_Andrews at isc.org
Mon Mar 6 21:57:26 UTC 2006


> There is one particular domain that, when added to named.conf,  
> prevents a reload. The error is:
> 
> /usr/local/namedb/named.conf:72228: zone 'foo.com': already exists
> 
> I've received this error before when a coworker has somehow managed  
> to add a domain twice. So I went looking for the duplicate...and  
> couldn't find one!
> 
> root at oak# grep foo.com named.conf
> named.conf:zone "foo.com" {
> named.conf:     file "dbfiles/foo.com";
> 
> But sure enough...commenting out the record in named.conf stops the  
> error from occurring, and named can still serve up responses for the  
> domain!
> 
> I'm stumped...haven't found a similar issue in the list archives or  
> via google. Any ideas?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -Bill

	Why do people do case sensitive searches on case insensitive
	data?

	Mark
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