New MaraDNS install & New user getting Unexpected character errors on load.

[Greg Platt - Platt Consultants]

Here's a complete list of all patches that have been applied to maradns
v1.2.12 in the debian 4.0r3(etch) that release I'm running:

maradns (1.2.12.04-1etch2) stable-security; urgency=high

  * Fix remote DoS

 -- Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm at debian.org>  Wed,  2 Jan 2008 20:05:55 +0000

maradns (1.2.12.04-1etch1) stable-security; urgency=high

  * Fix memleak DoS [CVE-2007-311[456]

 -- Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm at debian.org>  Thu, 21 Jun 2007 13:52:57 +0200

maradns (1.2.12.04-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * New upstream release
  * Source package contains non-free IETF RFC/I-D's (Closes: #393397)

 -- Kai Hendry <hendry at iki.fi>  Tue, 28 Nov 2006 08:54:23 -0300

maradns (1.2.12.03-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * New upstream release with many new doc tweaks. Though most of the
changes
    are with the webpages which I have chosen not to distribute as you can
    read them all rather online at http://maradns.org/
  * The diffs in the Makefiles are due to upstream's configure script
  * Added bind2csv2.py as an example from upstream's tools/
    There is a lot of little scripts in tools/ which can probably join this

 -- Kai Hendry <hendry at iki.fi>  Mon,  9 Oct 2006 17:44:21 -0300

maradns (1.2.12.02-4) unstable; urgency=low

  * More tweaks to the init.

 -- Kai Hendry <hendry at iki.fi>  Mon,  9 Oct 2006 16:01:50 -0300

maradns (1.2.12.02-3) unstable; urgency=low

  * I applied patch in the wrong place. Thanks again to Boris Dorès

 -- Kai Hendry <hendry at iki.fi>  Sun,  8 Oct 2006 21:02:33 -0300

maradns (1.2.12.02-2) unstable; urgency=low

  * start/stop zoneserver (Closes: #384943)
    Thank you Boris Dorès for the patch
  * Need --oknodo in postinst (Closes: #386734)
  * Start maradns(19) before exim4(20)

 -- Kai Hendry <hendry at iki.fi>  Sun,  8 Oct 2006 19:32:22 -0300

maradns (1.2.12.02-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * New upstream release

 -- Kai Hendry <hendry at iki.fi>  Wed, 23 Aug 2006 21:08:05 +0100


-----Original Message-----
From: Remco Rijnders [mailto:remco at webconquest.com] 
Sent: Monday, August 04, 2008 9:58 AM
To: gregplatt at ix.netcom.com
Cc: list at maradns.org
Subject: RE: New MaraDNS install & New user getting Unexpected character
errors on load.

> Sorry, I realized shortly after I'd sent it that I'd left out that info as
> well as linux and apache details. I was reposting it to the list when your
> follow-up question arrived. Here's what I said:
>
> I'm running
>
> Debian v4.0r3 (etch)
>
> Linux v 2.6.18-6-686
>
> Apache v2.2.3
>
> Maradns v1.2.12.04-1etch2
>
> I'm trying to figure out what patches have been applied to v1.2.12.04 the
> "1etch2" suffix to the name does, I believe, indicate that some patches
> released AFTER the original v1.2.12 version have been applied to Maradns
> since the original February 08 release of Debian 4.0r3; but I'm not sure
> how
> to determine exactly WHAT patches have been applied.

I do not have my "play" maradns server at hand at the moment to try this
on, but I think the problem might be related to your records all ending in
" ~". Tilde handling was only introduced in maradns v1.3 and I'm not sure
how the 1.2 parser likes it. Looking at the zone files you posted, I think
you can safely leave off the ~ at the end of each line. Can you try and
see it that makes a difference?

Remco