Yet another Xfer problem

[Danny Mayer]

At 02:30 PM 1/18/02, Bill Stephens wrote:

>I'm having problems with some IXFR zone transfers to one of my DNS
>servers.  The message log gives me the following error "premature EOF,
>fetching "some zone".  I don't think this is a memory issue, the
>primary server (and secondary for that matter) is a Linux machine with
>512 mb memory 512 mb swap space, and DNS is pretty much the only
>application on the server.  The server is able to process some zones
>between the primary and secondary, but consistantly I have one zone
>that only seems to be able to tansfer if I wipe it out on the
>secondary and restart, forcing an axfr.  I have another secondary
>pointing to the same primary, using AXFR's, and it's not having any
>problems transferring the zone.  It's a fairly small zone with < 100
>entries.  I've upgraded both the primary and slave to BIND 8.2.5 to
>see if that would improve things, no dice.  Any other ideas what might
>be going wrong?

Try setting transfer-format one-answer in named.conf either in options
(to make it global) or server for a specific server.  It may be having problems
with the many-answers transfer format. You didn't say what version of BIND
each side of transfer is being used or on what O/S.

         Danny