Hi there. I found a sample rndc.conf that I can use. And in terms of getting the out of range error fixed, I ended up fixing it. It turned out that the serial number was too large. I also had some fixing to do in some syntax-related stuff for the rr's. On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 09:25:43PM -0600, Gregory Nowak wrote: > Ok, first, you need to have an rndc.conf file. If you don't have one > already, then let me know, and I'll send you mine to look at, or > better yet, the rndc.conf(5) man page is your best friend here. > > Second, I can tell from your log below that you definitely don't have > an rndc.key file, create one. > > Not sure what your out of range error is all about, but it looks like > it might be a problem with your 68.37.x.x zone. When you said you > looked at the zone file, did you just go through it, and decided it > looked good to you, or did you actually check it with named-checkzone? > > If you haven't done so already, I would strongly recommend that you > rtfm on the dns-HOWTO. From personal experience, setting up a full > name server with bind is not a walk in the park. I'll repeat this > again, setting up a full name server with bind is not a walk in the > park. > > Greg > > > On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 09:26:02PM -0500, Igor Gueths wrote: > > Actually, I did a bit more investigation into the problem and it doesn't > > appear to be with named.conf. Here are the syslog entries that are > > present when named starts: Feb 4 21:21:56 igueths named[1905]: starting > > BIND 9.2.3rc4 -c /etc/named.conf > > Feb 4 21:21:56 igueths named[1905]: using 1 CPU > > Feb 4 21:21:57 igueths named[1905]: loading configuration from > > '/etc/named.conf' > > Feb 4 21:21:57 igueths named[1905]: no IPv6 interfaces found > > Feb 4 21:21:57 igueths named[1905]: listening on IPv4 interface lo, > > 127.0.0.1#53 > > Feb 4 21:21:57 igueths named[1905]: listening on IPv4 interface eth0, > > 68.37.56.149#53 > > Feb 4 21:21:57 igueths named[1905]: listening on IPv4 interface eth1, > > 192.168.1.1#53 > > Feb 4 21:21:57 igueths named[1905]: none:0: open: /usr/etc/rndc.key: > > file not found > > Feb 4 21:21:57 igueths named[1905]: couldn't add command channel > > 127.0.0.1#953: file not found > > Feb 4 21:21:57 igueths named[1905]: dns_rdata_fromtext: > > /var/named/68.37:2: near '200402041638': out of range > > Feb 4 21:21:57 igueths named[1905]: zone lava-net.com/IN: loading > > master file /var/named/68.37: out of range > > Feb 4 21:21:57 igueths named[1905]: running > > > > What does that out of range message mean? I checked over the zone file > > and it seems to be ok. Does this have to do with the fact that my > > nameserver doesn't respond to any dig queries? > > -- > Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup