Secondary updates on bind 8.1.2 solaris 7 X86

[Mark_Andrews at iengines.com]

> As you guys know bind 8.1.2 comes in Solaris 7 from SUN.  Although I am 
> having a major problem with my secondary updating from the primary name 
> server.  Here is what is happening.
> 
> My secondary is just not updating new zones.  It seems that every zone that 
> has an ns record and a SOA record that is the same it will not update.  Also 
> my secondary wont seem to update its own .db file in fact it wont even make 
> the jtinternet.com.db file at all.  Here is a good example.  nslookup into 
> ns1.websgt.net and look up the zone networkamerica.org.  At the same time 
> nslookup into ns2.jtinternet.com and lookup the same zone and it will not be 
> updated.  I have been checking the /var/adm/messages file in both the primary
>  
> and the secondary.  I can't find anything telling me why the zones won't 
> update.  I have completely debugged my named.conf files so I know that is not
>  
> the problem.  I have updated serial numbers now I am stuck and not sure what 
> to do.
> 
> Is there a bug in bind 8.1.2 that may not be allowing my secondary to get 
> updates when the SOA is the same as one of the NS records in the same .db 
> file?
> 
> Greg
> 
	Stop the master nameserver and restart it, then look at every
	message logged between starting and Ready to answer queries.
	You will have errors in the zone files.

	Below is an example of a clean load.  If you see messages other than
	like those below correct the problems indicated.  Named will not
	transfer a zone unless the master zone is giving out authoritative
	answers.  Named will not mark a zone as authoritive unless it gets
	no error when it is loaded.

	When ever you reload a nameserver you should check the logs to see if
	an error was detected.

	Mark

Oct 28 15:30:39 bsdi named[20803]: starting.  named 8.2.2-REL Thu Oct 21 12:52:52 EST 1999\n    marka at bsdi.dv.isc.org:/usr/home/marka/cvs/cur/bind/bsdos/bin/named
Oct 28 15:30:39 bsdi named[20803]: hint zone "" (IN) loaded (serial 0)
Oct 28 15:30:39 bsdi named[20803]: master zone "" (HS) loaded (serial 0)
Oct 28 15:30:39 bsdi named[20803]: master zone "dv.isc.org" (IN) loaded (serial 1999091300)
Oct 28 15:30:39 bsdi named[20803]: slave zone "191.155.130.in-addr.arpa" (IN) loaded (serial 1999092000)
Oct 28 15:30:39 bsdi named[20803]: master zone "10.in-addr.arpa" (IN) loaded (serial 907054412)
Oct 28 15:30:39 bsdi named[20803]: master zone "127.in-addr.arpa" (IN) loaded (serial 907052767)
Oct 28 15:30:39 bsdi named[20803]: master zone "example" (IN) loaded (serial 229)
Oct 28 15:30:40 bsdi named[20803]: slave zone "cmis.csiro.au" (IN) loaded (serial 1999102500)
Oct 28 15:30:40 bsdi named[20803]: slave zone "rc.vix.com" (IN) loaded (serial 1999102000)
Oct 28 15:30:40 bsdi named[20803]: master zone "bind" (CHAOS) loaded (serial 1)
Oct 28 15:30:40 bsdi named[20803]: listening on [130.155.191.233].53 (se0)
Oct 28 15:30:40 bsdi named[20803]: listening on [127.0.0.1].53 (lo0)
Oct 28 15:30:40 bsdi named[20803]: Forwarding source address is [0.0.0.0].2788
Oct 28 15:30:40 bsdi named[20804]: Ready to answer queries.

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