master bind 8 <-> slave bind 4

[François Chenais]

On 2000.12.21 19:02:05 +0100 Jim Reid wrote:
> >>>>> "Francois" == =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Fran=E7ois Chenais?= <ISO-8859-1>
> writes:
> 
>     Francois> When updating my BIND8, the BIND4 is notify but got the
>     Francois> error :
> 
>     Francois> Err/TO lors de l'obtention du numéro de série pour
>     Francois> "chenais.net" when getting serial number for  "chenais.net"
> (little translation :-)
> 
> Quelle surprise! I didn't know BIND spoke French!
> 
Yes ;-)


I have resolved the problem bye adding the option

	query-source port 53;


I thought it was the default way ?


	François


> First check the logs on the BIND8 server. There could be errors in the
> zone file for chenais.net which prevented the zone from being
> loaded. BIND8 is less tolerant of syntax errors than BIND4 was. This
> could prevent zone transfers from working. However you say that the
> slave server received a NOTIFY. This would suggest the master server
> managed to load the zone successfully. So if the zone wasn't loaded
> OK, fix the errors that are reported in the log.
> 
> If the zone was loaded OK, the problem is not on the master
> server. There could be a connectivity problem between the master and
> slave. [Try running named-xfer by hand on the slave or get dig to do
> axfr queries for the zone.] If that works OK, check the slave's
> configuration. Maybe it's checking a wrong address for the master
> server? Or could the slave server think it has a newer version of the 
> chenais.net zone (ie a larger SOA serial number) than the master
> server?
> 
>