[Talk] Bleah

[Larry Kagan]

Good night Kwan, don't let the bind bugs bite.



On Thu, 2006-10-05 at 23:17 -0400, Kwan Lowe wrote:
> I need to get some sleep. After nearly two days of waking I decided to convert my
> old BIND4/BIND8 nameservers to the 9.2 format...  I wrote a script to generate the
> named.conf files and the corresponding zone files. I put the script in my home
> directory  under ~/dns and ran the file against the domainlist. A second later a
> bunch of db.acmesite.com files were in that directory. I su'd to root, cd'd to
> /var/named/pz and copied the zonefiles.  Ran named-checkzone against the first
> domain (e.g., named-checkzone acmesite.com db.acmesite.com). Got a weird error.
> Opened another window in the ~/dns directory and edited the generate script and
> reran. It created another set of zone files in ~/dns.  Went back to the other window
> and re-ran the checkzone by recalling the previous command.  Same error.  Went back
> to the other window and fixed that I thought was wrong. Re-generated the zonefiles.
> Went back to the other window and ran checkzone. Same error. Lather. Rinse. Repeat.
> 
> Of course, if you're halfway awake you'll realize that I'm generating the files in
> one directory and running the checkzone against the same file in another directory.
> Repeat about a dozen times. I'm running checkzone against a file that's not
> changing. It never occurs to me that even a completely borked syntax works.
> 
> I bring a laptop into another room. Login to the server and check the zone file.
> Huh? Where are my changes... At that point the obvious hits me like a Mack truck.
> 
> I gotta get some sleep.
>