Greetings: I'm having a bit of a problem with my DNS server. Serves my forward zone OK but fails to load the DATA for the PTR (reverse) zone. Something about "ignoring out of zone data"... I understand that my reverse zone actually has NOT been delegated to my servers. (That was done with malice aforethought because I have not been able to get the reverse zone to load...)
My named.conf file (extracts) looks like this: zone "hicks-net.net" in { type master; file "db.hicks-net.net"; allow-update { none; }; allow-transfer { 87.98.164.164; 195.234.42.1; }; }; zone "96-28.55.139.64.in-addr.arpa" { type master ; file "db.96-28.55.139.64.in-addr.arpa" ; allow-update { none; }; }; This is my reverse zone: ---- $ORIGIN . $TTL 3600 96-28.55.139.64.in-addr.arpa. IN SOA ns.hicks.net. hostmaster.ns.hicks-net.net ( 2009081502 ; serial 3600 ; refresh 900 ; retry 604800 ; expire (1 week) 3600 ; minimum (1 hour) ) IN NS ns.hicks-net.net. IN NS ns0.xname.org. IN NS NS1.xname.org IN A 64.139.55.108 IN MX 10 mx.hicks-net.net. 97.139.55.64.in-addr.arpa. IN PTR localhost. ; rtr.hicks-net.net. 98.139.55.64.in-addr.arpa. IN PTR localhost. ; fw.hicks-net.net. 99.139.55.64.in-addr.arpa. IN PTR mx.hicks-net.net ; mx.hicks-net.net. 100.139.55.64.in-addr.arpa. IN PTR young-one.hicks-net.net. 101.139.55.64.in-addr.arpa. IN PTR young.hicks-net.net. 102.139.55.64.in-addr.arpa. IN PTR kris.hicks-net.net. (laptop) 108.139.55.64.in-addr.arpa. IN PTR metis.hicks-net.net. ---- I have tried this variant on the PTR record. (There were others but I cannot remember them.) Anyway, all failed. 97.96-28.139.55.64.in-addr.arpa. IN PTR localhost. This is what I get from named when I try and load the zone: 15-Aug-2009 00:25:10.775 general: warning: db.96-28.55.139.64.in-addr.arpa:17: ignoring out-of-zone data (97) 15-Aug-2009 00:25:10.775 general: warning: db.96-28.55.139.64.in-addr.arpa:18: ignoring out-of-zone data (98) 15-Aug-2009 00:25:10.775 general: warning: db.96-28.55.139.64.in-addr.arpa:19: ignoring out-of-zone data (99) 15-Aug-2009 00:25:10.776 general: warning: db.96-28.55.139.64.in-addr.arpa:20: ignoring out-of-zone data (100) 15-Aug-2009 00:25:10.783 general: warning: db.96-28.55.139.64.in-addr.arpa:21: ignoring out-of-zone data (101) 15-Aug-2009 00:25:10.783 general: warning: db.96-28.55.139.64.in-addr.arpa:22: ignoring out-of-zone data (102) 15-Aug-2009 00:25:10.783 general: warning: db.96-28.55.139.64.in-addr.arpa:23: ignoring out-of-zone data (108) 15-Aug-2009 00:25:10.785 general: info: zone 96-28.55.139.64.in-addr.arpa/IN/external: loaded serial 2009081500 15-Aug-2009 00:25:10.787 general: info: reloading zones succeeded 15-Aug-2009 00:25:10.799 notify: info: zone 96-28.55.139.64.in-addr.arpa/IN/external: sending notifies (serial 2009081500) I get these messages from named-checkzone: named-checkzone 96-28.55.139.64.in-addr.arpa /var/yp/name*/db.96* /var/yp/nameserver/db.96-28.55.139.64.in-addr.arpa:17: ignoring out-of-zone data (97.55.139.64.in-addr.arpa) /var/yp/nameserver/db.96-28.55.139.64.in-addr.arpa:18: ignoring out-of-zone data (98.55.139.64.in-addr.arpa) /var/yp/nameserver/db.96-28.55.139.64.in-addr.arpa:19: ignoring out-of-zone data (99.55.139.64.in-addr.arpa) /var/yp/nameserver/db.96-28.55.139.64.in-addr.arpa:20: ignoring out-of-zone data (100.55.139.64.in-addr.arpa) /var/yp/nameserver/db.96-28.55.139.64.in-addr.arpa:21: ignoring out-of-zone data (101.55.139.64.in-addr.arpa) /var/yp/nameserver/db.96-28.55.139.64.in-addr.arpa:22: ignoring out-of-zone data (102.55.139.64.in-addr.arpa) /var/yp/nameserver/db.96-28.55.139.64.in-addr.arpa:23: ignoring out-of-zone data (108.55.139.64.in-addr.arpa) zone 96-28.55.139.64.in-addr.arpa/IN: loaded serial 2009081503 OK (Basically, the same messages I get from named...) Any thoughts on what I'm doing wrong? (I have a copy of RFC-2317 but I'm still lost.) Any assist would be appreciated. Regards, Gregory Hicks --------------------------------------------------------------------- Gregory Hicks | Principal Systems Engineer | Direct: 408.569.7928 People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf -- George Orwell The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. -- Thomas Jefferson "The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed." --Alexander Hamilton _______________________________________________ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users