Install

Install

Please refer to the main README file for basic install notes.

check-names and underscores

It is possible in certain cases that when converting your data to ONA you will find that you have underscores in some of your DNS A records. At one point this was allowed but has since been changed to an invalid character. There is a BIND option called check-names that allows you to control this option. You can find more information about this BIND option and the RFCs here.

Your best option is to change any A records with underscores to a hyphen or remove the character. This puts your DNS records in compliance with standards. (In the future way may add an option to enforce this in ONA).

You may find that your BIND server complains with an error such as

failed: bad owner name (check-names)

In this case you may need to add the following to your /etc/named.conf file:

options {
    check-names master ignore;
    check-names slave ignore;
    check-names response ignore; 
};
include "/opt/ona/etc/bind/named.conf.ona";