Zone file problem

dute105 · 09-18-2005, 06:49 AM

Hi

Well i was trying to configure a dns server but to my surprise both the named.conf and reverse zone file are OK whereas the forward zone file is not working. The configuration file for the forward zone is as follows

$TTL 86400
$ORIGIN crab.edu.
@ IN SOA @ root (
42 ; serial (d. adams)
3H ; refresh
15M ; retry
1W ; expiry
3600 ) ; minimum

@ IN NS ns1
@ IN NS ns2

;; Mail exchanger
@ IN MX 10 mx1
@ IN MX 12 mx2

;; Address Records
@ IN A 172.16.20.18
gw1 IN A 172.16.20.18
ns1 IN A 172.16.20.18
ns2 IN A 172.16.20.18
www IN A 172.16.20.18
mx1 IN A 172.16.20.18
mx2 IN A 172.16.20.18

OK when i supply this command:
# named-chkconf-zone crab.edu.zone /var/named/crab.edu.zone

I normally get this output:

dns_master_load: /var/named/crab.edu.zone:3: ignoring out-of-zone data (crab.edu)
dns_master_load: /var/named/crab.edu.zone:10: ignoring out-of-zone data (crab.edu)
dns_master_load: /var/named/crab.edu.zone:11: ignoring out-of-zone data (crab.edu)
dns_master_load: /var/named/crab.edu.zone:14: ignoring out-of-zone data (crab.edu)
dns_master_load: /var/named/crab.edu.zone:15: ignoring out-of-zone data (crab.edu)
dns_master_load: /var/named/crab.edu.zone:18: ignoring out-of-zone data (crab.edu)
dns_master_load: /var/named/crab.edu.zone:19: ignoring out-of-zone data (gw1.crab.edu)
dns_master_load: /var/named/crab.edu.zone:20: ignoring out-of-zone data (ns1.crab.edu)
dns_master_load: /var/named/crab.edu.zone:21: ignoring out-of-zone data (ns2.crab.edu)
dns_master_load: /var/named/crab.edu.zone:22: ignoring out-of-zone data (www.crab.edu)
dns_master_load: /var/named/crab.edu.zone:23: ignoring out-of-zone data (mx1.crab.edu)
dns_master_load: /var/named/crab.edu.zone:24: ignoring out-of-zone data (mx2.crab.edu)
zone

crab.edu.zone/IN: could not find NS and/or SOA records
zone crab.edu.zone/IN: has 0 SOA

records
zone crab.edu.zone/IN: has no NS records

And i don't really know what this is about so i really need help from anyone to deal with this problem

Thanks in advance Dute

btmiller · 09-19-2005, 12:12 AM

You've got a number of extra @s in the file. IIRC you only need the @ before the SOA entry. You might want to look at the example zone file on this page (you'll need to scroll down a bit).

scowles · 09-19-2005, 05:29 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by dute105
OK when i supply this command:
# named-chkconf-zone crab.edu.zone /var/named/crab.edu.zone

Try specifying the proper zone name (domain) when you run named-chkconf-zone. i.e.

Code:

named-checkzone crab.edu /var/named/crab.edu.zone 
zone crab.edu/IN: loaded serial 42
OK

dute105 · 09-20-2005, 10:30 PM

thanks for the help btmiller. I did exactly as you said but this only reduces the number of errors... I will really apprecaite another suggestion.

Dute