bind bad owner name (check-names)

[stephen]

I was trying to set up a new web site

and I tried to have a host name of mail_old

when I started named

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/sbin/service named restart

the domain did not load into the DNS

I checked the /var/log/messages file

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cat /var/log/messages |grep mydomain

and it showed

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Jun 28 16:52:45 myserver named[1533]: mydomain.com.au.zone:17: mail_old.mydomain.com.au: bad owner name (check-names)
Jun 28 16:52:45 myserver named[1533]: zone mydomain.com.au/IN: loading master file mydomain.com.au.zone: bad owner name (check-names)


instead of using mail_old I removed the underscore and just used mailold
ie

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vi /var/named/mydomain.com.au.zone

Now the domain loads correctly

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/sbin/service named restart