[SOLVED] Zone file messup

jamescondron · 04-26-2011, 07:33 PM

Hey guys,

Wonder if anybody could help me; I've got an instance of BIND/named which wont start. The logs give me instances such as:

Code:

zone thegreatgift.co.uk/IN: NS 'ns1.dnsmerlin.com.thegreatgift.co.uk' has no address records (A or AAAA)
zone thegreatgift.co.uk/IN: NS 'ns2.dnsmerlin.com.thegreatgift.co.uk' has no address records (A or AAAA)
zone thegreatgift.co.uk/IN: not loaded due to errors.
_default/thegreatgift.co.uk/IN: bad zone

The zone file looks as per:

Code:

$TTL 14400
@       IN      SOA     ns1.dnsmerlin.com      hostmaster.thegreatgift.co.uk. (
                                                2009110800
                                                14400
                                                3600
                                                1209600
                                                86400 )

thegreatgift.co.uk.   14400     IN      NS      ns1.dnsmerlin.com
thegreatgift.co.uk.   14400     IN      NS      ns2.dnsmerlin.com

ftp 14400       IN    A 85.13.202.186
localhost       14400 IN        A       127.0.0.1
mail 14400      IN    A 85.13.202.186
pop 14400       IN    A 85.13.202.186
smtp 14400      IN    A 85.13.202.186
thegreatgift.co.uk.   14400     IN      A       85.13.202.186
www 14400       IN    A 85.13.202.186

thegreatgift.co.uk.   14400     IN      MX      10 mail



thegreatgift.co.uk.   14400     IN      TXT     "v=spf1 a mx ip4:85.13.202.186 ~all"

Any thoughts? I know its simple, and other domains work, but I can't get it- I think I've spent too long staring at it

bathory · 04-27-2011, 12:08 AM

Hi,

You miss all the trailing dots of the NS records (the dot at the end of nsX.dnsmerlin.com):

Code:

$TTL 14400
@       IN      SOA     ns1.dnsmerlin.com.      hostmaster.thegreatgift.co.uk. (
--snip--
thegreatgift.co.uk.   14400     IN      NS      ns1.dnsmerlin.com.  
thegreatgift.co.uk.   14400     IN      NS      ns2.dnsmerlin.com.  

--snip--

Increase the serial and reload the zone

jamescondron · 04-27-2011, 12:27 AM

Dammit!

Thanks a lot, I'm annoyed it was something so simple- guess thats the problem with trying to overthink it.