Search Again: Re: Failed SOA From: Men & Mice Support Date: Tuesday, November 6, 2001 Time: 5:23:20 pm The BIND error message doesn't use the term SOA. You should instead check for "serial#". The error message is: xfer-in: info: Err/TO getting serial# for "zone.name" ____________________________________________________________________ Chris Buxton Men & Mice support@menandmice.com Making DNS Easy At 1:24 PM -0600 11/6/01, Mia's Virtual Post Office wrote: >Men & Mice Support said: > > > >Agreed. There is some sort of problem here, though we're not exactly > >sure what it is. We'd like some help in diagnosing this. Therefore, > >those of you experiencing this problem, I have a question for you. > > >Definitely has to be a bug on the QDNS end... We have a sparc running >NetBSD and BIND and it is setup to log everything into the main system >logs. So we searched for anything with SOA in it by using these commands: > >cd /var/log >grep -i SOA messages >gunzip -c messages*gz|grep -i SOA > >The log file gets compressed every so often, thats why I did that second >search by gunzipping the compressed old log files to STDOUT, and then >doing another grep. Anyway, I didn't find anything by grepping or by >checking manually. > >What does this mean? Well it means that a secondary server of ours that >is "NOT" running QDNS and is polling a BIND Primary (with QDNS on Linux) >and is "NOT" getting these Failed to lookup SOA errors... Only a >secondary MacOS based QDNS secondary seems to have this problem. > > > >jer (jer@mia.net) > >Bella Mia, Inc. >High Speed Wireless - www.dslone.com >Web Hosting and Colocation - www.hostdrive.com >Nation Wide Dialup 4 years and running - www.mia.net > > > >NetZero = What this company will "NET" --- "ZERO"

Messages In This Thread: Failed SOA by Greg Saulsbury on Jun 12, 2001 at 9:16:26 pm Re: Failed SOA by Tony on Jun 12, 2001 at 9:52:18 pm Failed SOA by Alan Ordway on Nov 2, 2001 at 6:47:21 am Re: Failed SOA by Warren Michelsen on Nov 2, 2001 at 7:40:44 am Re: Failed SOA by Alan Ordway on Nov 2, 2001 at 11:49:34 am Re: Failed SOA by Warren Michelsen on Nov 2, 2001 at 3:20:20 pm Re: Failed SOA by Mia''s Virtual Post Office on Nov 2, 2001 at 3:28:32 pm Re: Failed SOA by Men & Mice Support on Nov 2, 2001 at 7:03:03 pm Re: Failed SOA by Philip Chonacky on Nov 5, 2001 at 10:36:21 am Re: Failed SOA by Warren Michelsen on Nov 5, 2001 at 10:42:38 am Re: Failed SOA by Alan Ordway on Nov 5, 2001 at 10:57:56 am Re: Failed SOA by Alan Ordway on Nov 5, 2001 at 11:01:05 am Re: Failed SOA by Mia''s Virtual Post Office on Nov 5, 2001 at 11:03:22 am Re: Failed SOA by Mia''s Virtual Post Office on Nov 5, 2001 at 11:05:04 am Re: Failed SOA by Alan Ordway on Nov 5, 2001 at 11:19:07 am Re: Failed SOA by Mia''s Virtual Post Office on Nov 5, 2001 at 11:24:23 am Re: Failed SOA by Warren Michelsen on Nov 5, 2001 at 11:37:58 am Re: Failed SOA by Mia''s Virtual Post Office on Nov 5, 2001 at 11:42:07 am Re: Failed SOA by Men & Mice Support on Nov 6, 2001 at 3:15:46 am Re: Failed SOA by Mia''s Virtual Post Office on Nov 6, 2001 at 9:48:37 am Re: Failed SOA by Mia''s Virtual Post Office on Nov 6, 2001 at 11:25:50 am Re: Failed SOA by Men & Mice Support on Nov 6, 2001 at 5:23:20 pm Re: Failed SOA by Mia''s Virtual Post Office on Nov 6, 2001 at 5:42:07 pm