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Re: Broken reverse DNS - after recent bind upgrade?



On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 11:12:02PM +0000, Terry Boon wrote:
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> I run a network of two machines on Debian 2.2 (potato).  apt-get
> upgraded bind this evening, and since then, reverse name lookup on the
> master name server for my domain has been broken.
> 
> The machines are as follows:
> 
>    poulenc (172.16.0.1)
>    prokofiev (172.16.0.2)
> 
> poulenc is the master name server for the domain
> herts.counterfactual.org (not visible to the outside world).
> 
> The logs (extract below) show that bind now has some problem upon
> reading in the configuration files.  Error messages include "...not at
> zone top..." and "...outside zone...".
> 
> Does anyone have ideas as to why this has suddenly stopped working and
> generated these error messages?
> 
> Many thanks for any help.
> 
> === Extract from /var/log/syslog (formatted for clarity) ===
> 
> Jan 29 22:04:54 poulenc named[517]: Zone "0.16.172.in-addr.arpa" (file
>   /etc/bind/db.172.16.0): No default TTL ($TTL <value>) set, using SOA
>   minimum instead
> 
> Jan 29 22:04:54 poulenc named[517]: /etc/bind/db.172.16.0:5: SOA for
>   "172.16.0.in-addr.arpa" not at zone top "0.16.172.in-addr.arpa"
> 
> Jan 29 22:04:54 poulenc named[517]: /etc/bind/db.172.16.0:10: data
>   "172.16.0.in-addr.arpa" outside zone "0.16.172.in-addr.arpa"
>   (ignored)
> 
> Jan 29 22:04:54 poulenc named[517]: master zone
>    "0.16.172.in-addr.arpa" (IN) rejected due to errors (serial 5)
> 
> 
> === Extract from /etc/bind/named.conf ===
> 
> zone "0.16.172.in-addr.arpa" in {
> 	type master;
> 	file "/etc/bind/db.172.16.0";
> };
> 
> 
> === Extract from db.172.16.0 ===
> 
> ; BIND master database file
> ; 172.16.0
> ; Created by Terry Boon on 7 January 2001
> 
> 172.16.0.in-addr.arpa. IN SOA poulenc.herts.counterfactual.org. terry.counterfactual.org (

Shouldn't this be

 0.16.172.in-addr.arpa.  

Actualy I always use

@ IN SOA ...

works for me.

> 	5	; Serial
> 	10800	; Refresh after 3 hours
> 	3600	; Retry after 1 hour
> 	604800	; Expire after 1 week
> 	86400 )	; Minimum TTL of 1 day
> 
> ;
> ; Name servers
> ;
> 
> 0.16.172.in-addr.arpa.	IN NS	prokofiev.herts.counterfactual.org.
> 0.16.172.in-addr.arpa.	IN NS	poulenc.herts.counterfactual.org.
> 
> ;
> ; Addresses point to canonical names
> ; 
> 
> 1.0.16.172.in-addr.arpa.	IN PTR	poulenc.herts.counterfactual.org.
> 2.0.16.172.in-addr.arpa.	IN PTR	prokofiev.herts.counterfactual.org.
> 
> === End extracts ===
> 
> - -- 
> Terry Boon, Hertfordshire, UK
> terry@counterfactual.org 
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