named: xfrnets - "mask problem"

From: Irene A. Shilikhina <irene_at_alpha.iae.nsk.su>
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 16:58:00 +0600 (NSK)

Hello Everyone,

having added the xfrnets option to the named.boot file with the addresses
of our secondary Name Servers and restarted named daemon, I got such lines
in daemon.log file:

Jan 19 15:50:29 alpha named[246]: reloading nameserver
Jan 19 15:50:30 alpha named[246]: xfrnets element (212.20.31.125) mask
problem (212.20.31.0)
Jan 19 15:50:30 alpha named[246]: xfrnets element (193.124.83.69) mask
problem (193.124.83.0)
Jan 19 15:50:30 alpha named[246]: Ready to answer queries.

An extract from the documentation:

  XFRNETS (origin: Paul Vixie of Digital)
        enables the "xfrnets" command in named.boot. this has the same
  syntax as "forwarders" and "sortlist" -- that is, a list of dotted quads.
  each one is a network (16.0.0.0 and 130.180.0.0 are examples) or a host.
                                                                ^^^^^^^^^
Nevertheless, replacing the host addresses with the network's ones
(xxx.xxx.xxx.0) provided a smooth restart:

Jan 19 16:21:13 alpha named[246]: reloading nameserver
Jan 19 16:21:13 alpha named[246]: Ready to answer queries.

Can anyone explain it?

Thanks,
Irene
  
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