On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 3:16 PM, Tim Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 >
There are major differences between 8.x and 9.x in handling stuff. 8 was a bit loser in RFC checking and 9 is much more. MX records have to point to A records and not CNAMES. 8 would allow CNAMES to act as A's in various ways but the RFC did not allow it and 9 cracked down. Hope that helps. > 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. > -- > Tim Evans, TKEvans.com, Inc. | 5 Chestnut Court > UNIX System Admin Consulting | Owings Mills, MD 21117 > http://www.tkevans.com/ | 443-394-3864 > http://www.come-here.com/News/ | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > _______________________________________________ > rhelv5-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list > -- Stephen J Smoogen. -- CSIRT/Linux System Administrator How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. = Shakespeare. "The Merchant of Venice" _______________________________________________ rhelv5-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list
