Thanks Jing! I added ddns as the dnshandler in the site table, re-ran
makedns -n and it generated the dns entries as expected without any errors
this time.



2011/12/6 Jing CDL Sun <[email protected]>

> Hello Dave,
>
> I found the error in bind.pm, I saw you removed the "dnshandler","bind"in 
> site table, but even without it, xcat will still use the bind as the
> default dnshandler until you set  "dnshandler","ddns" in site table , so
> in your case, makedns went into bind.pm.
>
> Since you are using makedns with bind.pm as the dnshandler, so -n flag
> means:
> -n *mask*
> Network:SubnetMask. If not specified, all the networks from the networks
> table will be used.
>
> Because you did not specify the *mask *with -n, so you got the errors.
>
>
> If you want to use ddns as the dnshandler, please follow the steps below:
> 1. set "dnshandler","ddns" in site table, then restart xcatd
> 2. check your /etc/resolv.conf to make sure your nameserver is your
> Management node and it is searching your domain as defined in the site
> table.
> 3. run makedns -n
>
>
>
>
>
> Best Regards,
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>  *Dave Barry <[email protected]>*
>
> 2011-12-07 02:12
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>   Subject
> [xcat-user] Empty network found in networks table. Where's the
>  empty network?
>
>
>
>
> Upgraded xCAT 2.6.6 to 2.6.9 via a simple yum update, everything went
> swimmingly as far as I can tell so far.
>
> I removed the old "dnshandler",bind"  that I had defined in the site table
> as a workaround for the dynamic dns issues earlier. I am now running
> makedns -n and "makedns" to get the new DNS entries/configuration all
> setup, and get the following error:
>
>
> [root@mn named]# makedns -n
> Error: Empty network found in networks table (i.e. ,,),This is almost
> certainly going to cause a problem....
>
> Error:  has no defined netmask in the networks table, the result will
> probably be wrong.
>
> Error: Must specify one -d and at least one -n.
>
>
> I only have a single network defined, so I am unsure what the above error
> is about:
>
>
> #netname,net,mask,mgtifname,gateway,dhcpserver,tftpserver,nameservers,ntpservers,logservers,dynamicrange,nodehostname,ddnsdomain,vlanid,domain,comments,disable
>
> "cluster","192.168.1.0","255.255.255.0","eth1",,"mn",,,,,"192.168.1.100-192.168.1.150",,,,,,
>
>
>
> Looking at /etc/named.conf and the /var/named files however, they all
> appear to get created correctly. Any ideas why I am getting the above error?
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