Problems with named default configuration in 6-STABLE

[Yuri Pankov]

On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 11:19:41PM +0200, Michael Nottebrock wrote:
> I finally updated my desktop from 5.5-RELEASE to 6-STABLE. This got me a new 
> named.conf, which I modified to run named as a local resolver, like I had 
> before:
> 
> listen-on       { 127.0.0.1; };
> listen-on-v6    { ::1; };
> forward only;
> forwarders {
>      192.168.8.1;
> };
> 
> Everything else is default. However, with this default configuration, named 
> will not resolve any hosts of my local domain (my.domain), which uses 
> addresses in the 192.168.8 subnet. My dns server on 192.168.8.1, running 
> 6.2-RELEASE, has a very simple dynamic dns setup: a zone "my.domain" and a 
> reverse zone 8.168.192.in-addr.arpa which are both dynamically updated by 
> dhcpd.
> 
> To make this work again, I had to delete everything in the default named.conf 
> from "/*      Slaving the following zones from the root [...]" 
> to "zone "ip6.int"                  { type master; 
> file "master/empty.db"; };".
> 
> I'm a DNS n00b, but I suspect that such drastic measures shouldn't be required 
> and somehow my setup is flawed. What can I do to make this work right?
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> -- 
>    ,_,   | Michael Nottebrock               | lofi at freebsd.org
>  (/^ ^\) | FreeBSD - The Power to Serve     | http://www.freebsd.org
>    \u/   | K Desktop Environment on FreeBSD | http://freebsd.kde.org

Hi Michael,

If I understood you correctly, you can't resolve 8.168.192.in-addr.arpa
anymore, and the line below (from default named.conf) is the cause:

zone "168.192.in-addr.arpa"   { type master; file "master/empty.db"; };


Yuri
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