SOA RNAME Value

[Tony Finch]

Justin Krejci <jkrejci at usinternet.com> wrote:
>
> So I am wondering if this is normal/expected behavior for BIND and if so
> should debug logging or named-checkzone with debugging be able to
> identify this as the problem. Or am I missing something else altogether?

With bind-9.7.3, I get the following log messages with the default logging
level:

14-Apr-2011 17:29:39.697 general: error: dns_rdata_fromtext: /zd/29-120.144.168.192.in-addr.arpa:5: near 'root': bad name (check-names)
14-Apr-2011 17:29:39.697 general: error: zone 29/120.144.168.192.in-addr.arpa/IN: loading from master file /zd/29-120.144.168.192.in-addr.arpa failed: bad name (check-names)

named-checkzone says:

/spool/bind/zd/29-120.144.168.192.in-addr.arpa:5: warning: root.29/120.144.168.192.in-addr.arpa: bad name (check-names)
zone 29/120.144.168.192.in-addr.arpa/IN: loaded serial 1
OK

named-checkzone -k fail says:

dns_rdata_fromtext: /spool/bind/zd/29-120.144.168.192.in-addr.arpa:5: near 'root': bad name (check-names)
zone 29/120.144.168.192.in-addr.arpa/IN: loading from master file /spool/bind/zd/29-120.144.168.192.in-addr.arpa failed: bad name (check-names)
zone 29/120.144.168.192.in-addr.arpa/IN: not loaded due to errors.

The zone file is:

$TTL 1h
;
@               SOA     localhost.      root (
                                1               ; serial
                                1h              ; refresh
                                1000            ; retry
                                1w              ; expiry
                                1h )            ; minimum
;
                NS      localhost.
;
; eof

Tony.
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