Re: Emacs and Bind9

[Kevin Rodgers <kevin.d.rodgers@gmail.com>]

Drew Shaughnessy wrote:
> Hello there.
>    I am in the process of configuring a Bind9 server on Ubuntu 9.10, but 
> for some reason my emacs will not let me save my zone files because with 
> the error "Cannot locate SOA record". This is slightly understandable 
> since I am trying to use the SOA record from another file with this line:
> 
> $INCLUDE "/var/cache/bind/internal/includes/mydomain-soa"
> 
> And here is my mydomain-soa file:
> 
> $TTL    86400
> @       IN      SOA     ns1.mydomain.com. admin.mydomain.com. (
>                                        2010012712  ; Serial
>                                        21600       ; Refresh
>                                        3600        ; Retry
>                                        604800      ; Expires
>                                        86400 )     ; Minimum
> 
>                        IN      NS      ns1.
>                        IN      NS      ns2.
>                        IN      MX      10 mail.
> 
> 
> Currently Bind restarts just fine and will preform lookups without any 
> issue. Is there some config I can put into .emacs or some mode I can use 
> that will keep emacs from checking for a SOA record?

The DNS mode that comes with Emacs does not actually process the
$INCLUDE control entity, and by default requires the SOA to be present
in the file.

But since your SOA record is in another file, you probably want to set
dns-mode-soa-auto-increment-serial to nil (or 'ask), and to do so as a
file local variable:

; -*- mode: dns-mode; dns-mode-soa-auto-increment-serial: nil; -*-

-- 
Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA