Tim Evans wrote:
> We have been running Sun's Solaris 9 BIND (reported as version 8.3.3) for some
> years and are retiring the old hardware. However, we came across an apparent
> syntax issue in moving the RHEL's BIND.
>
> Here's a piece of the old data file:
>
> oldmail        IN    A     192.168.9.2
>           IN    MX    100   mail
>
> Note the empty first field of the second line. Solaris BIND has never
> complained about this. "mail" is published as a CNAME in the outside world,
> since it is our main mail server.
>
> However, RHEL's BIND barfs on this missing data field. And, the MX record gets
> lost and not sent upstream if we turn the Solaris BIND off.
>
> What's wrong here? thanks.

We've got similar records set up in our zone files on RH5 and don't have
problems.

When I have botched a zone file, the messages from named in
/var/log/messages have been very helpful in pinpointing the problem.

There's a utility named-checkzone that you can use to verify your zone file.

Hugh

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