Problem with configuring DNS

[chyaroslav]

Hellow! I have a problem with initial configuring of DNS with hosts_to_named command. For example:
hosts_to_named -d new.zone -n my_network -b /etc/named.conf

produce error:

/usr/sbin/hosts_to_named: line 2298: unexpected EOF while looking for matching ``'
/usr/sbin/hosts_to_named: line 2324: syntax error: unexpected end of file

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

It appears to be a script error in the script hosts_to_named

I think its been modified. I'd see about copying it in from another system or reinstalling it.

You can look at lines 2298 and see if there is an obvious syntax errror. I often get this when I forget to close double quotes.

SEP

[chyaroslav]

for DOM in $DOMAINS $DEFAULT_DOMAIN
do
"str 2298" SUBDOM=`subdomain $DOM`
if test -f spcl.$SUBDOM
then
echo '$INCLUDE\tspcl.'$SUBDOM >> db.$SUBDOM
fi
done

I don`t sea an error in string 2298

[Ivan Krastev]

Maybe script cannot parse hosts file due to error in file. Can you post your /etc/hosts file ?


regards,
ivan

[chyaroslav]

this command failed on different systems. Also i have implement simple host file(with one string) by -H option. Result is the same.

[Ivan Krastev]

From http://docs.hp.com/en/5991-0757/ch02s03.html -

TXT records with unbalanced quotes, like â host TXT "fooâ , were not treated as errors in previous versions of BIND. If the zone files contain such records, then error messages like "unexpected end of file"will be displayed because BIND 9.2.0 will interpret everything up to the next quote character as a literal string.




regards,
ivan

[chyaroslav]

This is my hosts file:
10.62.224.196 test test.hpium.dpc.usi.ru

hosts_to_named -H ./hosts.1 -d hpium.dpc.usi.ru -n 10.62.224.128 -b /etc/named.conf
/usr/sbin/hosts_to_named: line 2298: unexpected EOF while looking for matching ``'
/usr/sbin/hosts_to_named: line 2324: syntax error: unexpected end of file

[chyaroslav]

Thanks for attention. Problem was solved when I run script from sh shell. In the first time a run it from bash shell.

[chyaroslav]

the error is in the first string of hosts_to_named script:
##!/usr/bin/sh
extra symbol # exists on all my HP-UX servers in script hosts_to_named. I have HP-UX 11.11. Who tell me if this mistake exists on other HP-UX?