[ILUG] DNS Zone files

[Kenn Humborg]

On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 03:00:12PM -0700, Joshua R. Beining wrote:
> Does anyone know of any reserved words that you cannot use in a zone file (I
> am using bind-8.2.2_P5-10)?  I am trying to add a host named lists but for
> some reason I cannot ping/connect to it after restarting the daemon.  I used
> a different name (test and test1) and was able to ping/connect without any
> problems.

It possible that an intermediate name server might have been caching the
original negative response for a few minutes.  

Use dig to query the name server directly and see what it says:

$ dig lists.domain.com @ns.wherever.com

Later,
Kenn