Unable to parse zone????

[jonbeard]

Hey guys I recently updated all my cPanel software, and now when I try to Edit a DNS zone, I get:

Unable to parse zone: Error while parsing zonedata for *DOMAIN NAME HERE*.com: expected valid rname, line 4 ...propagated at /usr/local/cpanel/Cpanel/CPAN/Net/DNS/ZoneFile/Fast.pm line 142.

Any help guys? Plz? Be detailed if you know how to fix it. Thanks in advance <3

-Me

[logicsupport]

Hi,

The error means that the dns zone has invalid data in it and it cannot be loaded. So you need to recreate the zone to fix this.

you can use the following cpanel script to do this

/scripts/pkgacct accountname ( just to backup the account)

/scripts/killdns domainname

/scripts/adddns --domain domainname

Please note that while recreating the domain using the above script it will not create the subdomain. It will create the default dns records. You can also specify the ip address using " --ip X.X.X.X " option

After running the scripts you can manually add the entries for the subdomains .

Hope this helps.

[Spiral]

Error while parsing zonedata for *DOMAIN NAME HERE*.com: expected valid rname, line 4

Looks like someone may have cut and pasted a template sample and forgot to update a line with their domain name.

[cobro]

I get this error while

Modifying Zone domain.com

Unable to parse zone: There was an error while loading the zone for domain.com. Please correct any errors in this zone manually and try again. The exact error from the parser was: expected valid serial, line 4 . zone domain.com/IN: loaded serial 2009120906 OK

domain.com used instead of real domain

if some one have a fix for this would be great

thank you

[cPanelDon]

I get this error while

Modifying Zone domain.com

Unable to parse zone: There was an error while loading the zone for domain.com. Please correct any errors in this zone manually and try again. The exact error from the parser was: expected valid serial, line 4 . zone domain.com/IN: loaded serial 2009120906 OK

domain.com used instead of real domain

if some one have a fix for this would be great

thank you

There's not a generic fix for errors in the DNS zone file; via root SSH access I would both manually check the zone file for possible typos and run the BIND "named-checkzone" utility for further testing..

Via root SSH access, the following utility that comes with BIND may be used to run a basic check on the zone file :

# named-checkzone

I recommend referring to its manual ("man") page for full documentation:

# man named-checkzone

An example with debug/verbose detail enabled is as follows:

# named-checkzone -d domain.tld /var/named/domain.tld.db

[johnnyhostile]

I just faced a problem like this, and there was no way I was going to blow away all of the zones.

I ended up finding a '+' in the SOA line for the email address and used this command (from the /var/named directory) to fix the syntax errors:

for i in `cat /etc/trueuserdomains | awk -F: '{print $1}'` ;do cp -av $i.db $i.db.bak && sed 's/\+/\./' $i.db.bak > $i.db ;done

Use that with caution of course.