BIND 8.2 Zone Transfers take forever

[Barry Margolin]

In article <3847F8A9.BF9F5A04 at yahoo.com>,
Marko Costa  <marko_costa at yahoo.com> wrote:
>I have a BIND 8.2 master name server and it seems to be working ok.
>Everybody's using it with no problems.
>
>Now I installed a BIND 8.2 slave name server and the zone transfers
>from the master take forever.

Are the named-xfer processes hanging around forever?

>Some zones take hours to transfer, some never get transferred and
>I get several zone files with the same name but different endings
>as if it were doing repeated attempts and failed.

Have you checked your log?  It sounds like the zone transfers are failing
for some reason, so named-xfer is leaving the temporary zone file around.

It's possible that named-xfer is hanging.  After 2 hours, named will kill a
named-xfer process that hasn't finished, and it will soon start another for
the same zone.

What version of BIND was the secondary running before you upgraded?

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