Strange secondary problem

[Barry Margolin]

In article <Dr3v3.502$EN3.47949 at typhoon01.swbell.net>,
mbw  <mbw at i-theta.com> wrote:
>Hello,
>I posted a request to this group a few weeks ago, looking for somebody to
>swap secondary for about 500 domains.  Somebody responded, but we are having
>problems getting one of the secondaries set up.  It is BIND running on
>Linux, trying to pull from BIND 4.9.7 on Windows NT.  All I see in my query
>log is the SOA requests, but never an AXFR attempt.
>Has anybody seen this before?  It is not a serial number problem, because he
>does not have any files yet!
>Thanks in advance.

Check the log on his Linux box.  It will probably have warnings about the
domains.  The most likely problem is that your server is not responding
authoritatively for the domains, usually due to syntax errors in your
files.

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