Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1996 12:44:15 +0200 (SAT) From: John Hay <jhay@mikom.csir.co.za> To: ishort@pcm.co.za Cc: davidg@Root.COM, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Named goes wobbly after a while Message-ID: <199603281044.MAA06590@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za> In-Reply-To: <199603280857.KAA06304@pcmgate.pcm.co.za> from "Irvine Short" at Mar 28, 96 11:00:47 am
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>
> 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
^^^^^^^^
This is the file that David referred to as named.root. It should have a
list of all the root name servers. You can get the latest and greatest
at FTP.RS.INTERNIC.NET:/domain/named.root
> 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?
>
John
--
John Hay -- John.Hay@csir.co.za
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