BIND 9.2.1 Refresh Timeout Problem

[phn at icke-reklam.ipsec.nu]

Barry Finkel <b19141 at achilles.ctd.anl.gov> wrote:
> On July 03 I posted:

>>When I start BIND 9.2.1, the zones are loaded, and I see the "running"
>>message.  Then I see messages
>>
>>     zone xxxxx/IN sending notifies (serial yyyyy)
>>
>>for each of the 293 zones.  Then I see messages like this one:
>>
>>     Jul  3 07:18:40 titania.ctd.anl.gov named[5037]: zone anl.gov/IN:
>>       refresh: failure trying master 146.137.96.100#53: timed out
>>
>>For some unknown reason the slave can not get to any of its masters.
>>What could cause this?  The slave server works fine with BIND 8.2.5-REL.

> There have been no replies on this newsgroup.  I looked at the BIND 9
> Users newsgroup, and there was a similar posting.  I am posting my
> problem here (instead of to bind9-users) because I am subscribed to
> this list, and I assume that the same level of expertise is available
> here as there.  Is there a need for two different newsgroups?

> The responses on bind9-users were

>      1) Change the firewall to accept DNS packets from a high-numbered
>         UDP port.
>      2) See transfer-source, notify-source and query-source to let BIND
>         not use a high-numbered UDP port.

> I do not have a firewall between my DNS server titania (aka 
> dns1.anl.gov) and some of my masters.  I ran a number of sniffer traces,
> and in each case I saw BIND 9.2.1 on dns1 send SOA queries from a
> high-numbered UDP port to port 53 on each master.  In the trace, which
> was taken on a router port that spanned the dns1 addresses, I saw
> responses for each of the SOA queries returning from port 53 on the
> masters to the high-numbered port on the slave dns1.  Is there any
> reason why BIND would not be seeing these return responses?  Do I
> need to change anything in the BIND configuration file?  After I have
> finished with my testing (when the initial set of refresh failure
> messages stop appearing in syslog), then I stop 9.2.1 with rndc,
> edit the named.conf file to comment out the rndc key statements,
> copy the BIND 8.2.5-REL executable back to named, and restart 8.2.5.

> Note that dns1 is a Solaris 5.6 machine (soon to be 5.8) with three
> Interfaces.  Is there a problem because I have multiple interfaces?

You might gave something here.  What if you explicitly states 
"listen-on for all your addresses ?

Could you give bind-9 another shout with that ?

> Thanks.
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> Barry S. Finkel
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