[CDBUG-talk] OpenBSD named.conf question

[Jonathan Franks]

On 9/26/05, Patrick Muldoon <doon at inoc.net> wrote:
>
> <SNIP>
> --Snip--
> > Starting privilege seperation
> > 26-Sep-2005 19:38:50.496 starting BIND 9.3.0 -g
> > 26-Sep-2005 19:38:50.518 loading configuration from '/etc/named.conf'
> > 26-Sep-2005 19:38:50.520 /etc/named.conf:26: unknown option 'forwarders'
> > 26-Sep-2005 19:38:50.522 loading configuration: failure
> > 26-Sep-2005 19:38:50.523 exiting (due to fatal error)
> >
>
> In looking at my 5.4 box I see ..
>
> [doon at hobbiton:~] uname -a
> FreeBSD hobbiton.home.doon.us <http://hobbiton.home.doon.us> 5.4-STABLEFreeBSD
> 5.4-STABLE #1: Fri Sep 23
> 15:26:40 EDT 2005
> root at hobbiton.home.doon.us:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/HOBBITON i386
> [doon at hobbiton:~] named -v
> BIND 9.3.1
>
> I am still running OpenBSD 3.6 on my firewall, and it uses bind 9.2 and I
> don't use forwarders.
>
> anyway a question, is your forwarders inside an options clause ?
>
> options{
> fowarders{
> 205.231.144.10 <http://205.231.144.10>; 205.231.144.2<http://205.231.144.2>
> ;
> };
> };
>
> Other options omitted...
>
> I don't normally use forwarders in my configs, so it is just a shot in the
> dark



Patrick, you are the man. No, it was outside my options clause. Surprise
surprise, moving it inside made all the difference. There are so many
comments in my named.conf file on the FreeBSD box, I missed that
completely... although I'm embarrassed to admit that I did briefly wonder
about that seemingly random

};

Thank you! This issue is resolved.

-Jonathan
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