not authoritative for my domain

[Marty Enerson]

You were right, there was an error, but it was in the
/var/tmp/bind-xfer.log file.  I am used to seeing the errors in the
/var/log/messages file.

It was a CNAME record that I put "A" instead of "CNAME"

Thanks for your help

Jim Reid wrote:

> >>>>> "Marty" == Marty Enerson <menerso at fallon.com> writes:
>
>     Marty> I have two internal DNS servers running BIND 8.  One is
>     Marty> authoritative for fallon.com and one is authoritative for
>     Marty> fallon-ny.com.  They are secondaries for each other.  I
>     Marty> recently got this error on the secondary server for
>     Marty> fallon.com when it tries to transfer the fallon.com zone
>     Marty> file.
>
>     Marty> 15:48:48 ns2 named-xfer[523]: [192.168.22.22] not
>     Marty> authoritative for fallon.com, SOA query got rcode 0, aa 0,
>     Marty> ancount 1, aucount 0
>
>     Marty> I don't get any errors on the fallon.com DNS when I reload,
>
>     Marty> Anytime I do a nslookup on my fallon.com DNS for fallon.com
>     Marty> entries, it comes back with the answer but
>     Marty> Non-authoritative.  For some reason my DNS doesn't think
>     Marty> that the fallon.com zone is authoritative.  Any ideas why?
>
> There is something wrong with the master name server for fallon.com.
> It's giving non-authoritative answers for that zone (=> refusing zone
> transfer requests) when it should be authoritative for the domain.
> Check the name server logs on that system. There's probably an error
> like an illegal host name in the zone file for fallon.com. This will
> be reported in the logs if logging hasn't been messed up.


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