From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 28 01:05:35 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id BAA09980 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 28 Mar 1996 01:05:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from aztec.co.za (aztec.co.za [196.7.70.131]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id BAA09969 for ; Thu, 28 Mar 1996 01:05:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from pcmgate.pcm.co.za [196.3.254.241] by aztec.co.za with smtp (Smail3.1.29.1 #2) id m0u2DcT-000aqRC; Thu, 28 Mar 96 11:03 EET Received: from IRVINEP5 (irvinep5.pcm.co.za [196.3.226.90]) by pcmgate.pcm.co.za (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id KAA06304; Thu, 28 Mar 1996 10:57:21 +0200 Message-Id: <199603280857.KAA06304@pcmgate.pcm.co.za> Comments: Authenticated sender is From: "Irvine Short" Organization: Professional Computer Manufacturers To: davidg@Root.COM, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1996 11:00:47 +2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: Named goes wobbly after a while Reply-to: ishort@pcm.co.za CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Confirm-Reading-To: ishort@pcm.co.za X-pmrqc: 1 Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v2.30) Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi David Thanks for the help. > Well, you might at least first fix the syntax error in your named.boot > fill..."#" is not a comment character (assuming that's what was intended). You > may wish to check out named.root and make sure it is valid and up-to-date. I deleted that line, and looked at named.root, which was empty. What I do have though is: . 99999999 IN NS aztec.co.za. aztec.co.za. 99999999 A 196.7.70.131 in a file db.cache which is referred to in named.boot as follows: directory /usr/lib/named ;type domain source file or host primary pcm.co.za db.pcm.co.za ;secondary co.za 192.96.22.53 cache . db.cache primary 226.3.196.in-addr.arpa db.196.3.226 primary 0.0.127.in-addr.arpa db.127.0.0 forwarders 196.7.70.131 However, I think I just found something. In db.soa, a file included in db.pcm.co.za, db.196.3.226, and db.127.0.0 I had this: @ IN SOA pcmunix1.pcm.co.za. postmaster.pcm.co.za. ( 95040601; Serial 10800 ; Refresh 1800 ; Retry 3600000 ; Expire 86400 ) ; Minimum IN NS pcmunix1.pcm.co.za. Where pcmunix1 no longer exists. You see, I just copied the name server files from the old SCO (pcmunix1) box to the new FreeBSD (pcmgate) box. I have changed the references in here to pcmgate, now perhaps I wil be OK? Thanks again, Regards, Irvine Short http://www.pcm.co.za/homepage/ishort/irv_home.html Technical Support Professional Computer Manufacturers Cape Town, South Africa Tel: ++27-21-235084 Fax ++27-21-235089