"zone already exists" error preventing reload

[Gregory Hicks]

> To: "William R. Dickson" <lackey at manoutoftime.org>
> Cc: bind-users at isc.org
> From: Mark Andrews <Mark_Andrews at isc.org>
> Subject: Re: "zone already exists" error preventing reload 
> Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2006 08:57:26 +1100
> 
> 
> > 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!

Taking Mark's comment (below) into account, the following command should be:

root at oak#  grep -i foo.com named.conf

to make the search case InSeNsItIvE...

> > 
> > 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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> 
> 

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