bind: unknown option

Jeremy Chadwick
Wed, 11 Jul 2007 14:53:34 -0000

On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 10:13:02AM -0400, Michael Butler
wrote:
> It seems that the recent updates to /etc/namedb/named.conf cause named
> on -stable to fail, e.g.
>
> named[56153]: starting BIND 9.3.4 -t /var/named -u bind
> named[56153]: /etc/namedb/named.conf:17: unknown option
'disable-empty-zone'
> named[56153]: /etc/namedb/named.conf:18: unknown option
'disable-empty-zone'
> named[56153]: /etc/namedb/named.conf:19: unknown option
'disable-empty-zone'
> named[56153]: loading configuration: failure
> named[56153]: exiting (due to fatal error)
>
> Perhaps these should be commented out pending an MFC?

I can confirm this problem as well on RELENG_6.  The
"disable-empty-zone"
option was introduced in 9.4.1 and isn't available in 9.3.4:

http://www.isc.org/sw/bind/view/?release=9.4.1#NOTES

* New options: empty-server, empty-contact, empty-zones-enable and
  disable-empty-zone.

Doug, did you test any of this on RELENG_6 before committing?  :-)

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