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[Jonathan Hutchins]

On Monday 11 April 2005 12:43 pm, Uncle Jim wrote:

> > >    @TTL 3D
> > > It probably should be:
> > >    $TTL 3D

> > Jim, that's my 'error', on my RH7.3 box running bind 9.2.1 it works fine
> > that way.  Of course, it probably hasn't changed since this box was
> > running RH 5.2.
>
> Have you looked at your messages log after starting named?

Apr 11 13:27:29 smaug named[4464]: starting BIND 9.2.1 -u named
Apr 11 13:27:29 smaug named[4464]: using 1 CPU
Apr 11 13:27:29 smaug named[4467]: loading configuration from 
'/etc/named.conf'
Apr 11 13:27:29 smaug named: named startup succeeded
Apr 11 13:27:29 smaug named[4467]: no IPv6 interfaces found
Apr 11 13:27:29 smaug named[4467]: listening on IPv4 interface lo, 
127.0.0.1#53
Apr 11 13:27:29 smaug named[4467]: listening on IPv4 interface eth1, 
192.168.76.254#53
Apr 11 13:27:29 smaug named[4467]: command channel listening on 127.0.0.1#953

No errors for years.

Checking two other nameservers I run, one is missing that first TTL line 
entirely, the other has it predecated with the $ instead of @.  They all work 
fine.