b10-loadzone issues

[Jeremy C. Reed]

On Tue, 6 Dec 2011, Spain, Dr. Jeffry A. wrote:

> I?m testing the authoritative server functionality of bind10-devel-20111128.
> My test zone file jaspain.net.db, as written by bind9, has the following
> contents:
> 
>  
> 
> $TTL 3600       ; 1 hour
> 
> jaspain.net             IN SOA  nstest.jaspain.net.
> hostmaster.countryday.net. (


How was it written by BIND 9?

All examples I have on my systems as created by "named" or by BIND 9 
tools either have the $ORIGIN entity or they don't have relative names 
(that is they do end in a dot).

> I found that adding the line ?$ORIGIN .? at the beginning of the zone file
> fixes this. Does it makes sense to have that be an implicit default for
> b10-loadzone so that bind9 zone files can be imported intact?

You may pass the origin name on the b10-loadzone command line with the 
-o switch.

Even BIND 9 would have the origin defined for your example zone file 
with its named.conf zone statement configuration.

...

> 11 RR(s) loaded in 0.05 second(s) (99.90% of
> jaspain.net.db)                   

> What does it mean that it loaded 99.90% of the zone file? What about the
> remaining 0.10%?

That is a bug.
http://bind10.isc.org/ticket/674

We plan on replacing the b10-loadzone to use the new datasource API, so 
we have been ignoring some loadzone bugs for now.

Thank you very much for testing out our software!