[PLUG] Named

[Doug Porter]

I don't know the specifics of the situation, hopefully Brent can tell us
more. What I suspect is that Brent may have changed the hostname and
ip's in his original post to "protect the innocent." 

Or if I am reading the following Deja post right, it may be possible to
get this error message without any of it being your fault...

http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=526400973&fmt=text

- Doug Porter <dsp@purdue.edu>

"Ryan E. Helfter" wrote:
> 
> Actually, i take that back: i just found out what it means:
> 
> Your SOA record in the zone file... what is listed as?
> 
> i think that it should be like this:
> 
> @ IN SOA ns01.army.mil. DOMAIN-REQUEST.AIMS7.army. (
> 
> but it looks like if you have the wrong SOA record in the zone file, you
> will get that bad referall message....
> 
> let me know if i am wrong :)
> 
> ry
> 
> On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Ryan E. Helfter wrote:
> 
> > Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 22:34:37 -0500 (EST)
> > From: Ryan E. Helfter <reh@blacksoul.net>
> > To: Doug Porter <dsp@purdue.edu>
> > Cc: plug@csociety.ecn.purdue.edu
> > Subject: Re: [PLUG] Named
> >
> > I totally agree, I was just questioning as to why you are you reversing an
> > entire class b?
> >
> > i.e. here is the info on that class b:
> >
> > ;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
> > 113.150.in-addr.arpa.   0S IN SOA       ns01.army.mil.
> > DOMAIN-REQUEST.AIMS7.army
> > .mil. (
> >                                         10000           ; serial
> >                                         10M             ; refresh
> >                                         1S              ; retry
> >                                         10M             ; expiry
> >                                         30M )           ; minimum
> >
> >
> > are you hosting a secondary / tertiary / etc.. dns server for the army?
> >
> > in ROTC or something?
> >
> > I am actually curious as to this...  I am not knocking you down on this,
> > believe me... cuz if you are actually hosting this, that rocks!  :)
> > Anyway, if there is conflicts in the source of authority for the reverse,
> > and when it tries to do an update with the root nameservers, you might be
> > experiencing problems...  Like I could be totally wrong here, but the
> > serial number you are using (are you pulling zone files from somewhere
> > else?) is it conflicting with some other server?
> >
> > i have checked all of deja.com and not found a thing on that error...
> > which version of bind are you using?  4, 8, or 9?
> >
> > ry
> >
> > On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Doug Porter wrote:
> >
> > > Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 18:26:40 -0500
> > > From: Doug Porter <dsp@purdue.edu>
> > > To: plug@csociety.ecn.purdue.edu
> > > Subject: Re: [PLUG] Named
> > >
> > > "Ryan E. Helfter" wrote:
> > > >
> > > > ummm... why do you have "113.150.in-addr.arpa" as your reverse in your
> > > > boot.conf / boot.named (depending on bind 8 or bind 4 respectively) Where
> > > > is your third set of numbers?
> > >
> > > If you are going to setup bind to do the reverse map for a /16 (class b)
> > > network you would only need two sets of numbers.
> > >
> > > - Doug Porter <dsp@purdue.edu>