Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1996 12:44:15 +0200 (SAT) From: John Hay <jhay@mikom.csir.co.za> To: ishort@pcm.co.za Cc: davidg@Root.COM, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Named goes wobbly after a while Message-ID: <199603281044.MAA06590@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za> In-Reply-To: <199603280857.KAA06304@pcmgate.pcm.co.za> from "Irvine Short" at Mar 28, 96 11:00:47 am
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> > Hi David > > Thanks for the help. > > > Well, you might at least first fix the syntax error in your named.boot > > fill..."#" is not a comment character (assuming that's what was intended). You > > may wish to check out named.root and make sure it is valid and up-to-date. > > I deleted that line, and looked at named.root, which was empty. > > What I do have though is: > > . 99999999 IN NS aztec.co.za. > > aztec.co.za. 99999999 A 196.7.70.131 > > in a file db.cache which is referred to in named.boot as follows: > directory /usr/lib/named > > ;type domain source file or host > primary pcm.co.za db.pcm.co.za > ;secondary co.za 192.96.22.53 > cache . db.cache ^^^^^^^^ This is the file that David referred to as named.root. It should have a list of all the root name servers. You can get the latest and greatest at FTP.RS.INTERNIC.NET:/domain/named.root > primary 226.3.196.in-addr.arpa db.196.3.226 > primary 0.0.127.in-addr.arpa db.127.0.0 > forwarders 196.7.70.131 > > However, I think I just found something. > > In db.soa, a file included in db.pcm.co.za, db.196.3.226, and db.127.0.0 > I had this: > @ IN SOA pcmunix1.pcm.co.za. postmaster.pcm.co.za. > ( > 95040601; Serial > 10800 ; Refresh > 1800 ; Retry > 3600000 ; Expire > 86400 ) ; Minimum > > IN NS pcmunix1.pcm.co.za. > > Where pcmunix1 no longer exists. You see, I just copied the name > server files from the old SCO (pcmunix1) box to the new FreeBSD > (pcmgate) box. I have changed the references in here to pcmgate, now > perhaps I wil be OK? > John -- John Hay -- John.Hay@csir.co.za
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