domain problems

Igor Gueths igueths at comcast.net
Wed Feb 4 23:33:26 EST 2004


Hi there. I found a sample rndc.conf that I can use. And in terms of 
getting the out of range error fixed, I ended up fixing it. It turned 
out that the serial number was too large. I also had some fixing to do 
in some syntax-related stuff for the rr's. 
On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 09:25:43PM -0600, Gregory Nowak wrote:
> Ok, first, you need to have an rndc.conf file. If you don't have one
> already, then let me know, and I'll send you mine to look at, or
> better yet, the rndc.conf(5) man page is your best friend here.
> 
> Second, I can tell from your log below that you definitely don't have
> an rndc.key file, create one. 
> 
> Not sure what your out of range error is all about, but it looks like
> it might be a problem with your 68.37.x.x zone. When you said you
> looked at the zone file, did you just go through it, and decided it
> looked good to you, or did you actually check it with named-checkzone?
> 
> If you haven't done so already, I would strongly recommend that you
> rtfm on the dns-HOWTO. From personal experience, setting up a full
> name server with bind is not a walk in the park. I'll repeat this
> again, setting up a full name server with bind is not a walk in the
> park.
> 
> Greg
> 
> 
> On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 09:26:02PM -0500, Igor Gueths wrote:
> > Actually, I did a bit more investigation into the problem and it doesn't 
> > appear to be with named.conf. Here are the syslog entries that are 
> > present when named starts: Feb  4 21:21:56 igueths named[1905]: starting 
> > BIND 9.2.3rc4 -c /etc/named.conf
> > Feb  4 21:21:56 igueths named[1905]: using 1 CPU
> > Feb  4 21:21:57 igueths named[1905]: loading configuration from 
> > '/etc/named.conf'
> > Feb  4 21:21:57 igueths named[1905]: no IPv6 interfaces found
> > Feb  4 21:21:57 igueths named[1905]: listening on IPv4 interface lo, 
> > 127.0.0.1#53
> > Feb  4 21:21:57 igueths named[1905]: listening on IPv4 interface eth0, 
> > 68.37.56.149#53
> > Feb  4 21:21:57 igueths named[1905]: listening on IPv4 interface eth1, 
> > 192.168.1.1#53
> > Feb  4 21:21:57 igueths named[1905]: none:0: open: /usr/etc/rndc.key: 
> > file not found
> > Feb  4 21:21:57 igueths named[1905]: couldn't add command channel 
> > 127.0.0.1#953: file not found
> > Feb  4 21:21:57 igueths named[1905]: dns_rdata_fromtext: 
> > /var/named/68.37:2: near '200402041638': out of range
> > Feb  4 21:21:57 igueths named[1905]: zone lava-net.com/IN: loading 
> > master file /var/named/68.37: out of range
> > Feb  4 21:21:57 igueths named[1905]: running
> > 
> > What does that out of range message mean? I checked over the zone file 
> > and it seems to be ok. Does this have to do with the fact that my 
> > nameserver doesn't respond to any dig queries? 
> 
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