Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2002 10:57:26 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: strange problems with BIND 9.2.1 Message-ID: <20021111105726.GA5959@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> In-Reply-To: <200211112111.35154.iain@voffice.myspinach.org> References: <200211111601.40202.iain@voffice.myspinach.org> <20021111082136.GB4812@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> <200211112111.35154.iain@voffice.myspinach.org>
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On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 09:11:35PM +1100, Iain wrote:
> On startup I see the following messages:
>
> Nov 11 20:33:41 shiraz named[71623]: command channel listening on 127.0.0.1#953
> Nov 11 20:33:41 shiraz named[71623]: command channel listening on ::1#953
> Nov 11 20:33:41 shiraz named[71623]: dns_master_load: named.syd.va.com.au:14: syd.va.com.au: CNAME and othe
> r data
> Nov 11 20:33:41 shiraz named[71623]: zone syd.va.com.au/IN: loading master file named.syd.va.com.au: CNAME
> and other data
> Nov 11 20:33:41 shiraz named[71623]: slave/named.culture2.org:6: no TTL specified; using SOA MINTTL instead
> Nov 11 20:33:41 shiraz named[71623]: slave/named.dessertstorm.org:6: no TTL specified; using SOA MINTTL ins
> tead
Ok. The named.conf looks fine, if fairly minimal. I think that the
problem is the errors in your zone files that named is complaining
about. Bind 9 is rather stricter about several questionable
constructs. The "CNAME and other data" thing is a case in point ---
you can't mix CNAME's and other RR types for the same RRset:
; Illegal...
foo IN CNAME bar
IN MX blurfl
You shouldn't even have multiple CNAME's in the same RRset:
; Illegal...
foo IN CNAME foo1
IN CNAME foo2
although you used to be able to persuade Bind 8 to accept that given
the correct options {}; statement.
The "no TTL specified; using SOA MINTTL instead" thing you're seeing
on those slave zones is just a warning and shouldn't prevent your
server working. If the master for those zones is running Bind 8.2 or
higher, you might prevail on the admin to add a reasonable default TTL
at the top of the file:
$TTL 7200 ; Default 3h TTL on RRs
Cheers,
Matthew
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