In message <36a87df2-c03d-48b0-8686-5d9caa328...@buxtonfamily.us>, Chris Buxton writes: > Thanks for the response, Tony. Responses in-line. > > On May 30, 2017, at 5:51 AM, Tony Finch <d...@dotat.at> wrote: > > > Chris Buxton <cli...@buxtonfamily.us> wrote: > > > >> dns_master_load: example.com.dns:6785: bad escape > >> dns_master_load: example.com.dns:6789: bad escape > >> > >> mhtswfw-dellfi01\342\200\223mgmt A 10.152.224.231 > >> mhtswfw-dellfi02\342\200\223mgmt A 10.152.224.232 > > > > Snigger. That's an en dash (U+2013, UTF-8 E2 80 93) encoded as > > octal escapes. Master file binary escapes are decimal :-) > > (Extra irony that Mockapetris was working on a PDP-10 which > > loved octal.) > > That's amazing. The escapes come from Microsoft DNS, of course, so > this seems like a bug in Microsoft's implementation. > > >> There are NS records pointing to these names. The names belong to the > >> zone I'm trying to compile. But the names are not defined. I would have > >> expected that '-i none' would have allowed it to skip these errors. but > >> it doesn't. > > > > Yes, BIND insists very strongly that name servers have addresses. > > But it didn't used to do so. This seems like a bug to me, even if it > is working as designed. The design is faulty. Any comment from ISC?
The '-i none' is for the delegating NS records. > The purpose of this workflow is to standardize how data from Microsoft DNS > exports are migrated into a BIND server. This problem is making the job > harder. Well Microsoft's servers don't check for lots of stupid content which ends up here as "why does this lookup fail". If a "server" has no address records then it isn't a server so why is it listed in the NS records for the zone? Almost all of the time there are no records at all so the glue A records get wiped out by the NXDOMAIN response to the AAAA lookup and you have a zone that is not resolvable. They also don't check for CNAME and other data. Mark > Regards, > Chris Buxton > _______________________________________________ > Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe > from this list > > bind-users mailing list > bind-users@lists.isc.org > https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users -- Mark Andrews, ISC 1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742 INTERNET: ma...@isc.org _______________________________________________ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this list bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users
