reverse dns in bind9

[Tim Dunphy]

hello

 no crabby comments on restart at all!

LBSD2# /etc/rc.d/named restart
Stopping named.
Waiting for PIDS: 4970.
Starting named.

Ah but yes some complaints from the logs

Mar 29 04:59:47 LBSD2 named[5469]: master/summitnjhome-reverse.db:10:
ignoring out-of-zone data (summitnjhome.com)
Mar 29 04:59:47 LBSD2 named[5469]: dns_master_load:
master/summitnjhome-reverse.db:11: unexpected end of line
Mar 29 04:59:47 LBSD2 named[5469]: dns_master_load:
master/summitnjhome-reverse.db:10: unexpected end of input
Mar 29 04:59:47 LBSD2 named[5469]: zone 1.168.192.in-addr.arpa/IN:
loading from master file master/summitnjhome-reverse.db failed:
unexpected end of input
Mar 29 04:59:47 LBSD2 named[5469]: zone 1.168.192.in-addr.arpa/IN: not
loaded due to errors.
Mar 29 04:59:47 LBSD2 named[5469]: running



Tho I am not sure why it's complaining about unexpected end of input

this is the whole file

                        201103271 ; Serial, todays date + todays serial
                        8H      ; Refresh
                        2H      ; Retry
                        4W      ; Expire
                        1D)     ; Minimum TTL
                NS      ns1.summitnjhome.com.
summitnjhome.com.
42               PTR     LCENT01.summitnjhome.com.
43               PTR     LCENT02.summitnjhome.com.
44               PTR     LBSD2.summitnjhome.com.
45               PTR     LCENT02.summitnjhome.com.
46               PTR     LCENT03.summitnjhome.com.
47               PTR     LCENT04.summitnjhome.com.
23               PTR     virtcent01.summitnjhome.com.
24               PTR     virtcent02.summitnjhome.com.
21               PTR     virtcent03.summitnjhome.com.
26               PTR     virtcent04.summitnjhome.com.
27               PTR     virtcent05.summitnjhome.com.
28               PTR     virtcent06.summitnjhome.com.
29               PTR     virtcent07.summitnjhome.com.
30               PTR     virtcent08.summitnjhome.com.
31               PTR     virtcent09.summitnjhome.com.
32               PTR     virtcent10.summitnjhome.com.
33               PTR     virtcent11.summitnjhome.com.
34               PTR     virtcent12.summitnjhome.com.
35               PTR     virtcent13.summitnjhome.com.
36               PTR     virtcent14.summitnjhome.com.
37               PTR     virtcent15.summitnjhome.com.
38               PTR     virtcent16.summitnjhome.com.
39               PTR     virtcent17.summitnjhome.com.
40               PTR     virtcent18.summitnjhome.com.
41               PTR     virtcent19.summitnjhome.com.



tim

On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 11:54 PM, Jon Radel <jon at radel.com> wrote:
> On 3/28/11 11:36 PM, Tim Dunphy wrote:
>
>> Now I could probably understand it FAILING due to perhaps a type-o in
>> the config. But I am genuinely curious as to how forward lookups will
>> work and reverse lookups time out.
>
> I would expect them to time out if your dns server knows nothing about the
> reverse zone; give or take how you connect to the rest of the DNS. What
> messages about zones loading did you get when you restarted bind? Where
> there any crabby comments in the log file about not loading
> master/summitnjhome-reverse.db due to error(s)?  Was that file mentioned at
> all?
>
> --Jon Radel
> jon at radel.com
>
>
>
>



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