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Date:      Wed, 30 Aug 2000 13:58:02 -0700
From:      "Caleb Walker" <caleb.walker@home.com>
To:        "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net>
Cc:        <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: BIND 8.2.3-T5B 
Message-ID:  <006b01c012c4$fcf24640$0a01a8c0@butthead>
References:  <200008302028.e7UKScU14405@ptavv.es.net>

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>
> The targets of NS and MX records must be names, not addresses.
>
> In the SOA record the values are:
> Serial
> Refresh
> Retry
> Expire
> Minimum TTL
>
> The values are not reasonable once you get the records in the right
> order. Refresh should be >= retry. Expire should be much larger than
> refresh or retry
>
> Add '$TTL 1D' (or the TTL of your choice) before the SOA.
>
> Two NS records pointing the same place is not useful, but should not
> break anything. You should really have two different servers on
> different systems. (Find a friend to run a slave.)
>
> The main problems is the addresses, though.

What do you mean here.  If I make a record for www  IN  A  www.cwalk.org
then I do a lookup i will get Name: www.cwalk.org/   address: www.cwalk.org
Somewhere in here i need an address. Am I correct?  I have attached the
latest news after i did what you did.
>
> This should work:
> $TTL 1D
> cwalk.org. IN SOA cx521708.pv1.ca.home.com.  calebwalker69.hotmail.com. (
> 2000083002  ; Serial (date yyyymmdd)
> 2H     ; refresh
> 1H          ; retry
> 2W     ; expire
> 300     ; TTL
>
> NS1 IN NS www.cwalk.org.
> NS2 IN NS www.cwalk.org.
> www IN A www.cwalk.org.
> ftp IN A www.cwalk.org.
> mail IN MX 50 www.cwalk.org.
>
>
> R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
> Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
> Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
> E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634
>


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@	IN 	SOA 	cx521708.pv1.ca.home.com.  calebwalker69.hotmail.com. (
		233  ; Serial 
		7200	    ; retry (2 hours)
		9999999999999999 ; expire (100 days)
		1216800)	    ; minimum (1 day)
NS1		IN  NS  	24.177.2.144
NS2		IN  NS	24.177.2.144
www		IN  A	24.177.2.144
ftp		IN  A	24.177.2.144
mail		IN  MX 50	24.177.2.144

		

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options {
	directory "/etc/namedb";


zone "." {
	type hint;
	file "named.root";
};

zone  "cwalk.org" {
		type master;
		file "db.cwalk.org";
};

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Aug 30 13:39:49 cx521708-b named[1505]: starting.  named 8.2.3-T5B Thu Jul 27 02:04:38 GMT 2000 	root@usw4.freebsd.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/usr.sbin/named
Aug 30 13:39:50 cx521708-b named[1505]: limit files set to fdlimit (1024)
Aug 30 13:39:50 cx521708-b named[1505]: /etc/namedb/named.conf:5: syntax error near zone
Aug 30 13:39:50 cx521708-b named[1505]: Zone "cwalk.org" (file db.cwalk.org): No default TTL set using SOA minimum instead
Aug 30 13:39:50 cx521708-b named[1505]: db.cwalk.org: WARNING SOA expire value is less than refresh + 10 * retry (1216800 < (7200 + 10 * 1209600))
Aug 30 13:39:50 cx521708-b named[1505]: db.cwalk.org: WARNING SOA refresh value is less than 2 * retry (7200 < 1209600 * 2)
Aug 30 13:39:50 cx521708-b named[1505]: Zone "cwalk.org" (file db.cwalk.org): no NS RRs found at zone top
Aug 30 13:39:50 cx521708-b named[1505]: master zone "cwalk.org" (IN) rejected due to errors (serial 233)
Aug 30 13:39:50 cx521708-b named[1506]: Ready to answer queries.

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