From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 1 14:55:10 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E6DD16A423 for ; Wed, 1 Feb 2006 14:55:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from pi.codefab.com (pi.codefab.com [199.103.21.227]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D4FF43D5C for ; Wed, 1 Feb 2006 14:55:09 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 946635C46; Wed, 1 Feb 2006 09:55:08 -0500 (EST) Received: from pi.codefab.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (pi.codefab.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 31718-01; Wed, 1 Feb 2006 09:55:06 -0500 (EST) Received: from [192.168.1.3] (pool-68-161-67-226.ny325.east.verizon.net [68.161.67.226]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D46D35CDD; Wed, 1 Feb 2006 09:55:05 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <43E0CBC9.3030801@mac.com> Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2006 09:55:05 -0500 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (Windows/20051201) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Brad Gilmer References: <20060131003745.GA15655@gilmer.org> <43DF6607.2090009@mac.com> <7.0.0.16.2.20060131122844.035b5bc8@gilmer.org> In-Reply-To: <7.0.0.16.2.20060131122844.035b5bc8@gilmer.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at codefab.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DNS nslint error messages X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2006 14:55:10 -0000 Brad Gilmer wrote: > Chuck and Gorgios, > > Thank you very much for your suggestions. Sure. At least occasionally, we manage to be helpful. :-) [ ... ] > Chuck, you said, >> The second one (nslint error) recommends adding a line like: >> localhost IN A 127.0.0.1 > >> ... to your gilmer.org zone, using no "." at the end to create a > localhost.EXAMPLE.COM entry. > > But when I make this change to the localhost entry in the > /etc/namedb/master/gilmer.org file, nslint reports: > > nslint: missing "a": localhost. -> 127.0.0.1 This is the same issue as before; you don't have a "localhost" zone. > nslint: missing "ptr": localhost.gilmer.org. -> 127.0.0.1 This means that you don't have a reverse zone file for 127.in-addr.arpa: ; ; BIND reverse data file for local loopback interface ; $TTL 864000 @ IN SOA localhost. root.localhost. ( 1 ; Serial 604800 ; Refresh 86400 ; Retry 2419200 ; Expire 604800 ) ; Default TTL ; @ NS localhost. 1.0.0 PTR localhost. > nslint: 127.0.0.1 in use by localhost.gilmer.org. and localhost. This means nslint is being too picky, but adding a reverse zone file with a PTR record might hush it up. -- -Chuck