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- From: ash@hpindda.cup.hp.com (Art Harkin)
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 20:12:51 GMT
- Subject: Re: Problems with 'named'
- Message-ID: <4310332@hpindda.cup.hp.com>
- Organization: HP Information Networks, Cupertino, CA
- Path: sparky!uunet!usc!sdd.hp.com!hpscit.sc.hp.com!hplextra!hpcss01!hpindda!ash
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
- References: <1992Dec15.154406.2988@news.arc.nasa.gov>
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- / comp.sys.hp / system@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca (System Admin (Mike Peterson)) / 9:40 am Dec 15, 1992 /
-
- > Unless your /etc/resolv.conf file contains nonsense, or you are
- > resolving names by NIS instead of DNS, you may have fallen on the
- > $INCLUDE bug in HP-UX named --- if you use $INCLUDE, it will destroy
- > your named data, since things like SOA records in the included file
- > are not seen, and IP address, etc, are garbled (many of ours got 255
- > inserted into one of the fields, which were easy to spot from a database
- > dump).
-
- This is not entirely correct. $INCLUDE files do work, with the exception
- of one known bug (originally in BSD), that does not correctly count SOA RRs
- within a zone. This bug only takes affect if the SOA record is located in
- the INCLUDE file rather than the first level database file. In this particular
- case the database (after being loaded) is considered erroneous, and is not
- considered authoratative. The data then can be replaced by garbled data that
- looks authorative which may be the case for Utoronto.
-
- > This problem is not fixed in 9.0.
-
- A release of a patch for this SOA INCLUDE problem is in the making.
-
-
- Art Harkin
-
- Hewlett-Packard Company E-mail: ash@cup.hp.com
- Information Networks Division
- 19420 Homestead Road MS 43LN, Cupertino, CA 95014
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