BIND 8.2 Zone Transfers take forever

[Bill Royds]

"Marko Costa" <marko_costa at yahoo.com> wrote in message news:3847F8A9.BF9F5A04 at yahoo.com...
> Hi.
> 
> 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.
> 
> 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.
> 


  I had this problem at one time because the named-xfer that was actually being run was from bind 8.1.2 rather than from bind 8.2 (wrong one was on path ahead of correct one). check to see that you are actually running correct version of named-xfer.