Secondaries and Error -120

Re: Secondaries and Error -120

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At 1:03 PM -0400 5/26/97, Tom Weishaar wrote:
>Do those of you running secondaries ever look at your log? I'm curious
>whether I'm the only one who has the following problem, or whether lots of
>people have it but don't know it because they don't look at their logs. In
>other words, is this error confined to my machine, or is it more general?

>May 24 17:44:34 Starting check for domain "bulk-bags.com."
>May 24 17:44:34 Attempting to download zone "bulk-bags.com." with serial
>1997052402, from 206.96.75.252
>May 24 17:44:34 Unable to create temp file, error -120
>May 24 17:44:34 Giving up on zone "bulk-bags.com."
>May 24 17:44:39 Starting check for domain "delta9.com."
>May 24 17:44:40 Attempting to download zone "delta9.com." with serial
>1997052401, from 206.96.75.252
>May 24 17:44:40 Unable to create temp file, error -120
>May 24 17:44:40 Giving up on zone "delta9.com."

>Error -120 is "subdirectory not found". Perhaps this is a bogus error
>message,
>as clearly all the required subdirectories are there, or this never would
>have
>worked at all.
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Yes, those of us responsible for secondaries DO read our log files from
time to time, if we suspect a problem. Here is mine from my first line
secondary server, responsible for my domain and currently two subdomains
and a domain outside our system to which I am providing secondary service.
You can clearly see that this is when I added the new outside domain
(fsdb.k12.fl.us) and had made changes to my master tables for
stjohns.k12.fl.us. The first zone transfer for the fsdb.k12.fl.us domain
is made and the zone is loaded by QuickDNS:
------------------------------------------------------------------------
May 23 00:39:14 Attempting to download zone "stjohns.k12.fl.us." with
serial 337, from 199.76.208.2
May 23 00:39:14 Done checking SOA for domain "lms.stjohns.k12.fl.us.", no
update needed
May 23 00:39:14 Done checking SOA for domain "mkr.stjohns.k12.fl.us.", no
update needed
May 23 00:39:14 Attempting to download zone "fsdb.k12.fl.us." with serial
1997052300, from 150.176.93.3
May 23 00:39:15 Zone "fsdb.k12.fl.us." sucessfully downloaded
May 23 00:39:15 Loading domain "fsdb.k12.fl.us."
May 23 00:39:15 Domain "fsdb.k12.fl.us." loaded
May 23 00:39:16 Zone "stjohns.k12.fl.us." sucessfully downloaded
May 23 00:39:17 Loading domain "stjohns.k12.fl.us."
May 23 00:39:17 Domain "stjohns.k12.fl.us." loaded
------------------------------------------------------------------------

As you can see, the system is working perfectly - no updates were needed
because no changes in the records had occured at these sites.

What you are experiencing may be system software related. If at all
possible, you should zap the PRAM on your server and try re-installing the
QuickDNS software. Other than that, and not knowing anything else about
what you have running on the DNS server, I have no clue.

Sincerely,
Allan C. Reichert
Instructional Computing/Internet Coordinator
St. Johns District School System
reichea@mail.stjohns.k12.fl.us
http://www.stjohns.k12.fl.us/
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