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On Nov 4, 2021, at 12:01 PM, Bruce Johnson <<a href="mailto:johnson@pharmacy.arizona.edu" class="">johnson@pharmacy.arizona.edu</a>> wrote:<br class="">
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<div class="">This morning our server started failing to reload or start. <br class="">
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checking the status reveals not a lot of info:<br class="">
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systemctl status named-chroot<br class="">
● named-chroot.service - Berkeley Internet Name Domain (DNS)<br class="">
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/named-chroot.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)<br class="">
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Thu 2021-11-04 11:55:17 MST; 27s ago<br class="">
Process: 2020 ExecStartPre=/bin/bash -c if [ ! "$DISABLE_ZONE_CHECKING" == "yes" ]; then /usr/sbin/named-checkconf -t /var/named/chroot -z "$NAMEDCONF"; else echo "Checking of zone files is disabled"; fi (code=exit><br class="">
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<div class="">named-checkconf -z revealed a name had been entered with underscores. The person responsible has been sacked. (not really, merely reminded no underscores are allowed in A records :-)</div>
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<div class="">Does named-checkzone not check for this? </div>
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Bruce Johnson<br class="">
University of Arizona<br class="">
College of Pharmacy<br class="">
Information Technology Group<br class="">
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Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs</div>
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