need help in starting up in.named
Mark Verber
verber at pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu
Sun Sep 23 04:20:54 AEST 1990
In article <5846 at quanta.eng.ohio-state.edu>
mzaik at kaa.eng.ohio-state.edu (Tahsin Mzaik) writes:
We are having a problem with named. When named runs, we get the message
that a file was not found in the named.boot file.
The named.boot file is as follows:
; named.boot file
domain ohio-state.edu
primary ohio-state.edu
secondary eng.ohio-state.edu 128.146.1.7
The problem, we believe, is that a source file should be specified after
the domain specification in the line that starts with 'primary,'...
Not only do you need a file specified for the primary, but you should
have one specified for the secondary also. But this has nothing to do
with your real problem. Your real problem is that this table is
completely bogus. First of all, my guess is that your domain name
should be "eng.ohio-state.edu" rather than "ohio-state.edu" which you
should be setting in /etc/resolv.conf. Secondly, you are *not*
primary for ohio-state.edu, you should not be claiming to be. Third, as
far as I know, you are *not* secondary for eng.ohio-state.edu.
Please, please, please, don't claim to be secondary unless you really
are! Hotwire your nameserver cache, but don't take secondary dumps
unless your are a secondary. Remove all those lines and add something
like this:
cache . /etc/named.d/named.ca
primary 0.0.127.in-addr.arpa /etc/named.d/loopback
loopback would look something like this:
@ in soa your_machine. postmaster.your_machine. (
1.1 ; serial
3600 ; refresh
300 ; retry
3600000 ; expire
14400 ) ; minimum
in ns your_machine.
1 in ptr localhost.
named.ca has the root name servers, and some local hot wiring
for say, ohio-state.edu, eng.ohio-state.edu, and 146.128.in-addr.arpa.
For example, something like this could be appended onto the end of
your cache of root nameservers:
ohio-state.edu. 99999999 IN NS nisca.ircc.ohio-state.edu.
99999999 IN NS tut.cis.ohio-state.edu.
99999999 IN NS cheops.cis.ohio-state.edu.
eng.ohio-state.edu. 99999999 IN NS nisca.ircc.ohio-state.edu.
99999999 IN NS tut.cis.ohio-state.edu.
99999999 IN NS cheops.cis.ohio-state.edu.
99999999 IN NS eng.eng.ohio-state.edu.
146.128.in-addr.arpa. 99999999 IN NS nisca.ircc.ohio-state.edu.
99999999 IN NS tut.cis.ohio-state.edu.
99999999 IN NS cheops.cis.ohio-state.edu.
osc.edu. 99999999 IN NS suna.osc.edu.
99999999 IN NS garcon.cso.uiuc.edu.
99999999 IN NS uxc.cso.uiuc.edu.
oar.net. 99999999 IN NS suna.osc.edu.
99999999 IN NS garcon.cso.uiuc.edu.
99999999 IN NS uxc.cso.uiuc.edu.
;
eng.eng.ohio-state.edu. 99999999 IN A 128.146.10.2
nisca.ircc.ohio-state.edu. 99999999 IN A 128.146.1.7
tut.cis.ohio-state.edu. 99999999 IN A 128.146.8.60
cheops.cis.ohio-state.edu. 99999999 IN A 128.146.8.62
suna.osc.edu. 99999999 IN A 128.146.1.4
garcon.cso.uiuc.edu. 99999999 IN A 128.174.5.58
uxc.cso.uiuc.edu. 99999999 IN A 128.174.5.50
Cheers,
Mark
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