In my zone files I wrote the addresses in the "A" records as 192.168.1.41. with a trailing period. I was sure that was right so never questioned it. Removing the last period fixed everything.
Thanks to all who replied. John Purser -----Original Message----- From: John M. Purser [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, August 03, 2003 5:26 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Bind9 on Woody - "Bad dotted quad" I thought of that. I replaced all the periods in "192.168.1.40" and then re-typed it. Same error message. I put another line with a similar ip address in front of it and got an error message on the new line. After removing the new line I changed the "192" series ip number of a "12" series number and bind swallowed that and choked on the next address record which had a "192" address. I haven't had a problem like this with bind before but I haven't used bind 9 either. I was hoping it was a compile option the package maintainer used. I'll go back to the documentation again to see what I can see. John Purser -----Original Message----- From: Richard Lyons [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, August 03, 2003 4:11 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Bind9 on Woody - "Bad dotted quad" On Saturday 02 August 2003 23:39, John M. Purser wrote: > I've installed the bind9 package and tried to configure it to work > with my little internal network. When I start it up I get an error > message telling me "bad dotted quad" saying it's from the zone > configuration file for my network which uses the 192.168.0 network > numbers.[...] You have checked you have full-stops (periods) on the end when you should have and not when you shouldn't? Just a thought. -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
