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Subject: What's wrong with this named.db? (digest)
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Date: 2 Oct 90 18:45:31 GMT
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Well, the results are in.

There were quite a few things wrong with my named.db and I owe thanks to the
following people:

   kjd@mold.enet.dec.com
   pvm@venera.isi.edu
   cricket@winnie.corp.hp.com
   map@gaak.LCS.MIT.EDU
   ARIEL@RELAY.PRIME.COM
   mdb@ESD.3Com.COM
   dan@sci.ccny.cuny.edu

and one other individual whose mail message was accidentally deleted (sorry).

The new, improved, and operative named.db (for those who are wondering):

$ORIGIN Widener.EDU.
@          IN    SOA     aixps2.Widener.EDU. jrp.aixps2.Widener.EDU. (
                         20       ; Serial
                         3600     ; Refresh
                         600      ; Retry
                         3600000  ; Expire
                         172800 ) ; Minimum
           IN    NS      aixps2.Widener.EDU.
aixps2     IN    MX      100   aixps2.Widener.EDU.
           IN    A       192.55.239.55
cyber      IN    MX      100   cyber.Widener.EDU.
           IN    A       192.55.239.13

The changes are numerous:

  #  Addition of a period to the end of the $ORIGIN.
  #  Addition of "IN" to almost all of the stanzas.
  #  Addition of a contact for the SOA record.
  #  A space before the end ')' in the SOA record.
  #  A much larger minimum for the SOA (not required, but recommended)
  #  Addition of arguments for MX records.

Thank you everyone.

Special thanks to kjd@mold.enet.dec.com for help with the BIND manual.

--JRP [Now I must fix the named.boot file...]