I added a new zone to our domain today and ran named-checkzone and got the following when it ran:
named-checkzone -t /var/named/chroot Pharmacy.Arizona.EDU /etc/Pharmacy.Hosts zone Pharmacy.Arizona.EDU/IN: getaddrinfo(xxxxxxx1.barracudanetworks.com) failed: System error zone Pharmacy.Arizona.EDU/IN: getaddrinfo(xxxxxxx2.barracudanetworks.com) failed: System error zone Pharmacy.Arizona.EDU/IN: loaded serial 1762233835 OK These are our Barracuda cloud service addresses set as MX entries in the zone: ;MX records ;pharmacy.arizona.edu. 3600 IN MX 99 barracuda.pharmacy.arizona.edu. ;message exchangeer pharmacy.arizona.edu. 3600 IN MX 10 xxxxxxx1.barracudanetworks.com. pharmacy.arizona.edu. 3600 IN MX 10 xxxxxxx1.barracudanetworks.com. Mail is working and the OK at the end of the named-checkzone output indicates that it thinks the zone file passes ok. I can resolve the actual addresses without an issue : dig d256777b.ess.barracudanetworks.com @elixir.pharmacy.arizona.edu ; <<>> DiG 9.10.6 <<>> d256777b.ess.barracudanetworks.com @elixir.pharmacy.arizona.edu ;; global options: +cmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 3699 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 3, AUTHORITY: 13, ADDITIONAL: 27 ;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION: ; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 4096 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;d256777b.ess.barracudanetworks.com. IN A ;; ANSWER SECTION: d256777b.ess.barracudanetworks.com. 60 IN A 209.222.82.252 d256777b.ess.barracudanetworks.com. 60 IN A 209.222.82.253 d256777b.ess.barracudanetworks.com. 60 IN A 209.222.82.255 ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: com. 8416 IN NS k.gtld-servers.net. com. 8416 IN NS i.gtld-servers.net. com. 8416 IN NS b.gtld-servers.net. com. 8416 IN NS a.gtld-servers.net. com. 8416 IN NS l.gtld-servers.net. com. 8416 IN NS d.gtld-servers.net. com. 8416 IN NS g.gtld-servers.net. com. 8416 IN NS h.gtld-servers.net. com. 8416 IN NS m.gtld-servers.net. com. 8416 IN NS f.gtld-servers.net. com. 8416 IN NS e.gtld-servers.net. com. 8416 IN NS j.gtld-servers.net. com. 8416 IN NS c.gtld-servers.net. ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION: e.gtld-servers.net. 149240 IN A 192.12.94.30 m.gtld-servers.net. 10936 IN A 192.55.83.30 d.gtld-servers.net. 10936 IN A 192.31.80.30 b.gtld-servers.net. 53266 IN A 192.33.14.30 j.gtld-servers.net. 53266 IN A 192.48.79.30 i.gtld-servers.net. 53266 IN A 192.43.172.30 c.gtld-servers.net. 10936 IN A 192.26.92.30 g.gtld-servers.net. 53266 IN A 192.42.93.30 h.gtld-servers.net. 169371 IN A 192.54.112.30 f.gtld-servers.net. 10936 IN A 192.35.51.30 a.gtld-servers.net. 82539 IN A 192.5.6.30 k.gtld-servers.net. 10936 IN A 192.52.178.30 l.gtld-servers.net. 10936 IN A 192.41.162.30 e.gtld-servers.net. 53266 IN AAAA 2001:502:1ca1::30 m.gtld-servers.net. 169371 IN AAAA 2001:501:b1f9::30 d.gtld-servers.net. 53266 IN AAAA 2001:500:856e::30 b.gtld-servers.net. 169371 IN AAAA 2001:503:231d::2:30 j.gtld-servers.net. 149240 IN AAAA 2001:502:7094::30 i.gtld-servers.net. 64023 IN AAAA 2001:503:39c1::30 c.gtld-servers.net. 169371 IN AAAA 2001:503:83eb::30 g.gtld-servers.net. 169371 IN AAAA 2001:503:eea3::30 h.gtld-servers.net. 10936 IN AAAA 2001:502:8cc::30 f.gtld-servers.net. 169371 IN AAAA 2001:503:d414::30 a.gtld-servers.net. 20333 IN AAAA 2001:503:a83e::2:30 k.gtld-servers.net. 53266 IN AAAA 2001:503:d2d::30 l.gtld-servers.net. 53266 IN AAAA 2001:500:d937::30 ;; Query time: 15 msec ;; SERVER: 128.196.116.5#53(128.196.116.5) ;; WHEN: Thu Feb 03 10:26:49 MST 2022 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 907 And I don’t see anything in the logs about this. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- Visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this list ISC funds the development of this software with paid support subscriptions. Contact us at https://www.isc.org/contact/ for more information. bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users