BIND zone also-notify syntax
Given the following my BIND 9 is not able to start.
acl ns2 { 192.168.10.50; };
zone "10.168.192.in-addr.arpa" IN {
also-notify { ns2 port 53; };
type master;
file "192.168.10.db";
};
It's writing the following to the /var/log/messages file.
[root@dev bind]# tail /var/log/messages
Jan 25 18:41:05 dev named[22863]: found 4 CPUs, using 4 worker threads
Jan 25 18:41:05 dev named[22863]: using 4 UDP listeners per interface
Jan 25 18:41:05 dev named[22863]: using up to 4096 sockets
Jan 25 18:41:05 dev named[22863]: loading configuration from '/etc/named.conf'
Jan 25 18:41:05 dev named[22863]: /etc/named.conf:18: missing ';' before 'port'
Jan 25 18:41:05 dev named[22863]: /etc/named.conf:18: missing ';' before '53'
Jan 25 18:41:05 dev named[22863]: /etc/named.conf:23: missing ';' before 'port'
Jan 25 18:41:05 dev named[22863]: /etc/named.conf:23: missing ';' before '53'
Jan 25 18:41:05 dev named[22863]: loading configuration: failure
Jan 25 18:41:05 dev named[22863]: exiting (due to fatal error)
This is strange because per their guide here, the correct statement syntax is
[ also-notify { ip_addr [port ip_port] ; [ ip_addr [port ip_port] ; ... ] }; ]
Solution 1:
I've fixed it by doing the following... If anyone knows why we now have both masters and acl, rather than just acl, please enlighten me.
acl ns2 { 192.168.10.50; };
masters ns2 { 192.168.10.50 port 53; };
options {
allow-query { any; };
allow-recursion { localnets; };
allow-transfer { ns2; };
directory "/var/named";
dump-file "/var/named/data/cache_dump.db";
statistics-file "/var/named/data/named_stats.txt";
pid-file "/var/run/named.pid";
};
zone "10.168.192.in-addr.arpa" IN {
also-notify { ns2; };
type master;
file "192.168.10.db";
};