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I do not understand why I did not get similar test and log results as you indicate below but I appreciate your feedback!<BR>
Thank you!!<BR>
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On Thu, 2011-04-14 at 17:39 +0100, Tony Finch wrote:
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Justin Krejci <<A HREF="mailto:jkrejci@usinternet.com">jkrejci@usinternet.com</A>> 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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