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From: HATHAWA@gecrdvm1.crd.ge.com (Barry Hathaway)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains
Subject: problems defining a root server
Message-ID: <90267.170604HATHAWA@gecrdvm1.crd.ge.com>
Date: 24 Sep 90 21:06:03 GMT
Organization: General Electric Corporate Research & Development
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I hope that this is the correct list for questions/problems relating to BIND.
If not please let me know.

I'm trying to bring up a name server for an internal class A network so it
should be authoritative for root.  The file that named.boot reads for the
zone appears below:

$ORIGIN crd.ge.com
..   IN SOA crdns hathawa.gecrdvm1.crd.ge.com (
         0465  ; Serial
         86400  ; Refresh
         600    ; Retry
         864000 ; Expire
         86400) ; Minimum
   IN NS crdns
snoopy   IN A 3.1.4.1
snoopy  IN MX 0 snoopy
*****other A and MX records for other hosts deleted *****


As named reads the file it gives me the following errors:

Debug turned ON, Level 5
Version = named 4.8 #1: Mon Sep 24 16:17:42 EDT 1990
	hathawa@crdns:/usr/users/hathawa/bind.4.8/named
	bootfile = /etc/named.boot
ns_init(/etc/named.boot)
savehash GROWING to 2
savehash GROWING to 2
zone[1] type 1: '.', source = root.zone
db_load(root.zone, , 1)
db_load: origin crd.ge.com, buf
db_load: origin now crd.ge.com
Line 2: Unknown type: ..
root.zone: line 2: database format error ('.', 0)
root.zone: line 4: database format error ('', 465)
root.zone: line 6: database format error ('', 600)
root.zone: line 8: database format error ('', 86400)
d='snoopy.crd.ge.com', c=1, t=1, ttl=0, data='3.1.4.1'
db_update(snoopy.crd.ge.com, 0x10013a20, 0x10013a20, 01, 0x100139c0)
savehash GROWING to 2
savehash GROWING to 2


It does not seem to matter whether I running bind 4.8 or the Ultrix-supplied
one; however, IBM's VM name server is perfectly happy with the file.
Any ideas.?