Zones on secondary have gone missing...

Re: Zones on secondary have gone missing...

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At 3:30 PM -0500 5/1/03, Jeff Justice wrote:
>The only zone that shows up on the slave is the previously disabled
>zone I mentioned. I re-enabled it. When I open the options for
>that zone on the primary, I have a pull-down menu that shows both
>NS1 and NS2.

That's because the zone exists on both servers. You are shown zone
options for both servers.

>However, any of the other 17 zones, when the options are selected
>for them on the primary, do not give me an NS2 pulldown menu.

That's because these zones don't exist on ns2.

>All of the zones, the one working and the seventeen not, have an NS2
>nameserver entry in their zone information.

That's good, but is not relevant to the discussion at hand.

>The operating system on the slave is 9.1, as it has always been.
>Operating system on the primary is 9.2.2, as it has always been. No
>one else has the password to either server except me.
>
>How would one configure a master zone to NOT be duplicated on the slave?

When the zone was created, either you're not connected to ns2, or
else you unchecked ns2 in the new zone dialog. Or after the zone was
created, it was deleted from ns2.

>Here's another note, when I double-click on the one zone that does
>show up on the slave, to bring up the zone details, it starts to
>come up, then gives me a dialog that says something like "Could not
>open the slave zone "elvinsrefrigeration.com." from the server
>ns2.starionhost.net.", probably because the zone data has not been
>transferred from the..." and it is cut off from there.

That indicates that the zone was never transferred (via zone
transfer) from the master server. This could happen if, for example,
the zone is also disabled on the master server.

>Is it possible that the datafile for the slave server is corrupted?
>Could I just delete it and let it rebuild from the primary server?

It wouldn't rebuild automatically. You could reinstall QuickDNS on
ns2, replacing the copy currently running (you'd have to quit it
first). After it's all set up and running, you could run the Add
Slave Server script to rebuild it.
____________________________________________________________________
Chris Buxton Men & Mice
support@menandmice.com Making DNS Easy

>On Thursday, May 1, 2003, at 03:17 PM, Men & Mice Support wrote:
>
>>Yes, it is odd. What operating system are you using for the slave
>>server? When was the last time the disk was checked for errors?
>>
>>Aside from computer error, the only explanation that comes to mind
>>is operator error. Has anyone besides yourself had the password?
>>
>>The fact that zones still exist on the master server doesn't mean
>>that the slave server should also be configured for all of them.
>>While QuickDNS makes it easy to manage two servers together, and
>>create zones on both servers at the same time, you can also use it
>>otherwise. QuickDNS doesn't actively keep a slave server up to date
>>with a master server with regard to the list of zones hosted on the
>>two servers. (Zone contents themselves should be kept up to date -
>>when a zone changes on the master server, the slave server should
>>get the update in short order.)
>>____________________________________________________________________
>>Chris Buxton Men & Mice
>>support@menandmice.com Making DNS Easy
>>
>>At 3:01 PM -0500 5/1/03, Jeff Justice wrote:
>>>I guess I don't understand why this happened at all. They used to
>>>be there. I haven't changed anything, and wouldn't the fact that
>>>they ARE set up in the primary mean they should be showing up in
>>>the secondary?
>>>
>>>Jeff J.
>>>
>>>
>>>On Thursday, May 1, 2003, at 02:04 PM, Men & Mice Support wrote:
>>>
>>>>It's not just that the slave server isn't updating; from what you
>>>>say, the slave server is not (or no longer) set up for these
>>>>zones at all.
>>>>
>>>>What version of QuickDNS are you using? Version 3.5 and later
>>>>have an AppleScript (included with the Mac version of QuickDNS
>>>>Manager) called "Add Slave Server" that will fix this problem for
>>>>you.
>>>>____________________________________________________________________
>>>>Chris Buxton Men & Mice
>>>>support@menandmice.com Making DNS Easy
>>>>
>>>>At 1:28 PM -0500 5/1/03, Jeff Justice wrote:
>>>>>I have two servers, primary, secondary. I don't have much need
>>>>>to look at them often as QuickDNS just WORKS (99.9% of the time
>>>>>:) ). However, today, I opened up my primary and secondary to
>>>>>add a new domain, and all of the zones, except one disabled zone
>>>>>I had, are gone from the secondary.
>>>>>
>>>>>Nothing has changed with the setup in months. I can ping the
>>>>>secondary, and the primary. I have rebooted the machine that
>>>>>the secondary is on. It appears that the secondary is not
>>>>>updating. Any ideas what has happened?
>>>>>
>>>>>Jeff J.

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