secondary name server not updating

[Barry Margolin]

In article <4.2.2.20000426145603.00a8ae40 at mail.torontowired.com>,
Frank Auciello  <frank at torontowiredsolutions.com> wrote:
>Hello All:
>
>	I have set up my DNS servers and everything was working fine.  I just 
>added a couple more domains to the primary server, and reloaded and 
>everything is fine.  I added them to the secondary and reloaded, but 
>noticed it did not go to the primary to get the zone file.  It used to go 
>and get the zone files, but it does not do it anymore.  I am not sure if 
>this is a bug in BIND 8.2.2p5.  The only thing that I have done to the 
>machines is putting comments on everything in the inetd.conf file and 
>installed SSH.

If this were a known bug in 8.2.2p5, it certainly would have been fixed by
now, since it would completely cripple any sites that are running that
version.  Zone transfers are a critical feature of named -- anything that
routinely prevents them would be a disaster.

>There are no errors in the /var/log/messages file and it seems to work fine 
>except for the zone files not being updated and wriiten to the directory it 
>is supposed to be in.

Are you saying that the slave server has the new zones in its memory, just
not in files?  I.e. if you query the slave server for one of the new zones,
you'll get an authoritative answer with the current version?  That will
happen if you don't have a "file" clause in the "zone" statement; that
means that you want the slave to perform a zone transfer, but not save it
in a permanent file (this means that it will have to redo the zone transfer
every time it restarts, so very few sites do this intentionally).

>If anyone can help, I would really appreciate it

It should transfer the zones.  Since you haven't provided any details about
your configuration, there's no way for us to tell why it isn't.

-- 
Barry Margolin, barmar at genuity.net
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