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nslist and DNS

Unix bind DNS files are absolutely unforgiving. As mentioned below, just the slightest mistype can destroy te whole thing. As it can be nearly impossible to spot these errors, programs like nslint can help.

Apparently nslint could still miss a thing or two. It doesn't look like this program has been updated since 2001, so those bugs may still exist.

Newsgroups: comp.unix.sco.misc
From: bill@wjv.com.REMOVEME (Bill Vermillion)
Subject: Re: DNS Problems
Message-ID: <FJvJ4C.3G4@wjv.com.REMOVEME> 
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 1999 23:40:59 GMT

In article <7uipfh$3t$1@nnrp1.deja.com>,  <rloerzel@hightowerinc.com> wrote:
>My company has a SCO Openserver machine we are using for DNS.  The
>server is operating as the primary DNS for about 20 domains.
>Everything is working fine except for one domain.  I've added the zone
>file. I've added the entry on named.boot.  Nothing works.  I've had a
>number of people look at it and everyone says that all the periods are
>in the right places and everything should work.  When I try to nslookup
>the domain all I get is the "Unknown/Invalid Domain" error.  What could
>I be missing?  HELP!!!!!!!!!

Well no one can guess what you are missing without posting all of
your files.

Small things like a missing period, substituting a # for a comment
instead of a  ;  - things like that.   

But there are tools to help.   nslint is one of them.  I also had
a file pass nslint and lost one subnet.   The clue there is to
look in the messages log file when named starts, as it will
typically put the error there, and often even give you a line
number to make the search easier.

Bill
-- 
Bill Vermillion   bv @ wjv.com 

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