[nsd-users] nsd-4.1.15: problems parsing a zone file

[Lars Wendler]

Hi Wouter,

thank you very much for your thorough explanation.
I have truncated the serial number and now nsd-4.1.15 works as expected.

Once again thanks for your help.

Kind regards
Lars

Am Tue, 28 Feb 2017 09:40:27 +0100
schrieb "W.C.A. Wijngaards" <wouter at nlnetlabs.nl>:

> Hi Lars,
> 
> 4.1.15 refuses to load illegally large serial numbers.  This number is
> then larger than the 32bits that we have to store it in.  Older NSD
> would not actually store that number.  And in 4.1.15 we fixed it that
> impossible numbers are not parsed.
> 
> 201702270932  is too large, your serial number.
> 4000000000 - that is 4 billion.
> 
> usually people have year+month+day+counterfrom1to100.
> there is no space for year+month+day+hour+minute.
> 
> I have changed the code to print:
> error: home.mydomain.org.zone:8: serial is expected or serial too big
> 
> Best regards, Wouter
> 
> On 27/02/17 10:32, Lars Wendler wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > after updating nsd from version 4.1.14 to version 4.1.15 I have the
> > following error messages in the nsd logfile upon startup:
> > 
> > 
> > [2017-02-27 10:09:12.347] nsd[18850]: notice: nsd starting (NSD
> > 4.1.15) [2017-02-27 10:09:12.348] nsd[18852]: error:
> > home.mydomain.org.zone:8: serial is expected 
> > [2017-02-27 10:09:12.348] nsd[18852]: error:
> > home.mydomain.org.zone:13: zone configured as 'home.mydomain.org'
> > has no SOA record. [2017-02-27 10:09:12.348] nsd[18852]: error:
> > zone home.mydomain.org file home.mydomain.org.zone read with 2
> > errors [2017-02-27 10:09:12.360] nsd[18852]: notice: nsd started
> > (NSD 4.1.15), pid 18851
> > 
> > 
> > The same zone file was read without errors with nsd-4.1.14 and older
> > versions:
> > 
> > [2017-02-27 09:38:22.128] nsd[17816]: notice: nsd starting (NSD
> > 4.1.14) [2017-02-27 09:38:22.140] nsd[17818]: notice: nsd started
> > (NSD 4.1.14), pid 17817
> > 
> > nsd-checkzone from version 4.1.15 also reports the above errors
> > whereas nsd-checkzone from 4.1.14 does not report any errors.
> > 
> > Here is the corresponding zone file:
> > 
> > 
> > # cat /var/lib/nsd/home.mydomain.org.zone 
> > $TTL 600
> > @ IN SOA ns4.mydomain.org. polynomial-c.gmx.de. (
> >     201702270932        ; Serial
> >     14400               ; Refresh
> >     1800                ; Retry
> >     604800              ; Expire
> >     86400               ; Minimum
> >     )
> > 
> > @               IN NS   ns4.mydomain.org.
> > 
> > @               IN A    85.212.112.110
> > 
> > 
> > I am quite new to DNS servers and its configuration so it might
> > also be my config being broken. But searching the web and reading
> > the documentation didn't bring me to a working solution so now I'm
> > here :)
> > 
> > Please CC me on replies as I am not subscribed to this list.
> > 
> > Thanks in advance
> > kind regards
> > Lars
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