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Re: Slave zones not transferring

From: Men & Mice Support
Date: Thursday, December 5, 2002
Time: 5:12:34 pm

At 9:28 AM -0600 12/5/02, Brian Blood wrote:
>Men & Mice Support wrote on 12/4/2002 7:45 PM
>
>>No, that's not necessary. The problem is evident in the fact that you
>>cannot get a zone transfer when you send the request from the slave
>>server.
>>
>>Make sure that nothing blocks port 53/TCP between master and slave.
>>Start looking at other potential networking problems. Make sure that
>>the master server's DNS service is up and running.
>
>Using nslookup on the slave server and pointing directly to the master, I
>can do an "ANY" lookup and get back correct authoritative zone
>information.

OK. So why can't you get an AXFR response? That's the problem you're
facing. Again, make sure that nothing blocks the TCP port, since
AXFR's go over TCP and other queries (almost always) go over UDP.
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Chris Buxton Men & Mice
support@menandmice.com Making DNS Easy



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