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Date:      Mon, 4 Oct 1999 00:00:40 +0200
From:      Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl>
To:        Richard Morte <ric@sinclairassoc.force9.co.uk>
Cc:        "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: NSLINT and DNS configuration
Message-ID:  <19991004000040.F35757@daemon.ninth-circle.org>
In-Reply-To: <37F74CBD.FE1EE27D@sinclairassoc.force9.co.uk>
References:  <37F74CBD.FE1EE27D@sinclairassoc.force9.co.uk>

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On [19991003 14:41], Richard Morte (ric@sinclairassoc.force9.co.uk) wrote:
>Has anyone used nslint to check the dns configuration? I just used it
>and it reports the following:
>
>   missing address A localhost. -> 127.0.0.1
>   missing pointer PTR localhost.at.home -> 127.0.0.1
>   127.0.0.1 in use by localhost.at.home & localhost.

Had this before. Definately a configuration error.

named.conf:

zone "1.0.0.127.IN-ADDR.ARPA" {
        type master;
        file "db.127.0.0.1";
};

db.127.0.0.1:

1       IN      PTR     localhost.blah.org.

db.blah.org:

localhost       IN      A       127.0.0.1

[blah.org is fictional and only used for the example]

>I have checked the configuration and localhost does seem to be clearly
>mapped to 127.0.0.1 and vice-versa. This seems to be confirmed by the
>final line of nslint's output.
>
>Are these "errors" due to nslint's inability to find it's way through
>the config files ( I shouldn't trust nslint's output) or has it found
>something I should investigate further (nslint is good and I've clearly
>got it wrong)?

nslint is 99% of the time correct. Remember, computer lexers and parsers
interpret configurations aimed for computers better than humans ;)

HTH,

-- 
Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven/Asmodai                  asmodai(at)wxs.nl
The BSD Programmer's Documentation Project <http://home.wxs.nl/~asmodai>;
Network/Security Specialist        BSD: Technical excellence at its best
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