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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>I have been having some strange DNS errors lately and it sent me down a rabbit hole to find the problem. I removed whole zones and re-added them manually among other drastic steps but it took forever to find the problem. Which I have now sort of done.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>To make a very long story short when I check the zone with:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>named-checkzone ciic.com /var/named/chroot/var/named/db.ciic.com<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I get this as the result.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>dns_master_load: /var/named/chroot/var/named/db.ciic.com:37: db.ciic.com.include: file not found<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>zone ciic.com/IN: loading from master file /var/named/chroot/var/named/db.ciic.com failed: file not found<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>zone ciic.com/IN: not loaded due to errors.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>This error says that db.ciic.com.include cannot be found. However the file is clearly present. I checked it and it is empty. I never touched it. But if I edit the main zone file /var/named/chroot/var/named/db.ciic.com and comment out the include then the zone works.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>named-checkzone ciic.com /var/named/chroot/var/named/db.ciic.com<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>zone ciic.com/IN: loaded serial 2020050908<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>OK<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Nothing I do in the GUI works however. Once I make a change in the GUI it will remove the comment I made and the zone will fail again.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Anyone seen this or have any ideas? This is on an up-to-date 5209R<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>______________________________<br>M Aronoff Out – <a href="mailto:maronoff@gmail.com"><span style='color:blue'>maronoff@gmail.com</span></a> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.<br> - <a href="http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/31912.html"><span style='color:windowtext;text-decoration:none'>Thomas Jefferson</span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>