Problems transferring zones to ISP's secondary

Fri Jan 7 13:53:56 UTC 2000

Itis most likely that there is a syntax error somewhat in that
zone. BIND will still load that zone on the primary, but not
declare itself authoritative and thus also not allow
zonetransfers.

In fact, your primary does not seems to be answering anything useful for
that domain at all. I get a servfail for an SOA query, and a referral (to
itself!)
for an ANY query..

 $ dig derwent-discovery.com soa @DNS1.DERWENT.CO.UK

; <<>> DiG 8.2 <<>> derwent-discovery.com soa @DNS1.DERWENT.CO.UK
; (1 server found)
;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch
;; got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: SERVFAIL, id: 6
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; QUERY SECTION:
;;      derwent-discovery.com, type = SOA, class = IN

;; Total query time: 7721 msec
;; FROM: matjes to SERVER: DNS1.DERWENT.CO.UK  193.123.78.2
;; WHEN: Fri Jan  7 21:50:44 2000
;; MSG SIZE  sent: 39  rcvd: 39

$ dig derwent-discovery.com any @DNS1.DERWENT.CO.UK

; <<>> DiG 8.2 <<>> derwent-discovery.com any @DNS1.DERWENT.CO.UK
; (1 server found)
;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch
;; got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 6
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 2
;; QUERY SECTION:
;;      derwent-discovery.com, type = ANY, class = IN

;; ANSWER SECTION:
derwent-discovery.com.  1d21h35m55s IN NS  SEC1.DNS.UK.PSI.NET.
derwent-discovery.com.  1d21h35m55s IN NS  DNS1.DERWENT.CO.UK.

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
derwent-discovery.com.  1d21h35m55s IN NS  SEC1.DNS.UK.PSI.NET.
derwent-discovery.com.  1d21h35m55s IN NS  DNS1.DERWENT.CO.UK.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
SEC1.DNS.UK.PSI.NET.    1d22h33m50s IN A  154.32.105.34
DNS1.DERWENT.CO.UK.     30M IN A        193.123.78.2

;; Total query time: 385 msec
;; FROM: matjes to SERVER: DNS1.DERWENT.CO.UK  193.123.78.2
;; WHEN: Fri Jan  7 21:50:50 2000
;; MSG SIZE  sent: 39  rcvd: 164

-----Original Message-----
From: Tindall, Mark <MTindall at Derwent.co.uk>
To: 'bind-users at isc.org' <bind-users at isc.org>
Date: Friday, January 07, 2000 9:46 PM
Subject: Problems transferring zones to ISP's secondary

|Hello,
|
|we currently have the control of two domains - derwent.co.uk and
|www.derwent-discovery.com - which are both registered with our DNS server
as
|the primary and our ISP's as the secondary. The derwent.co.uk domain is
|transferring it's zones across to our ISP's with no problems and we can
|query their servers successfully. The derwent-discovery.com domain on the
|other hand is not transferring at all. The zone files for both of the
|domain's exist on our primary DNA server so I know there is no problem with
|the connection. I have tried setting up temporary internal DNA servers and
|running zone transfers for both domains, with success for the derwent.co.uk
|domain but nothing for the derwent-discovery.com domain. This indicates a
|problems with the zone files but I cannot see where they are. I have
|attached the named.conf file and the zone file which are used to this
|message. Any help that someone could give me with this problem would me
much
|appreciated.
|
| <<Untitled>>  <<Untitled>>
|
|Mark Tindall
|System Analyst
|Derwent Information Ltd.
|Tel: 0171 424 2093
|Fax: 0171 344 2815
|Email: mtindall at derwent.co.uk
|
|
|
|-- Attached file included as plaintext by Listar --
|-- Desc: Untitled
|
|Message-ID: <200001071438.OAA07012 at ftp2.derwent.co.uk>
|From: root <root at ftp2.derwent.co.uk>
|To:
|Subject:
|Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2000 14:38:02 -0000
|MIME-Version: 1.0
|X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21)
|Content-Type: text/plain;
| charset="iso-8859-1"
|
|// generated by named-bootconf.pl
|
|options {
| directory "/var/named";
| /*
| * If there is a firewall between you and nameservers you want
| * to talk to, you might need to uncomment the query-source
| * directive below.  Previous versions of BIND always asked
| * questions using port 53, but BIND 8.1 uses an unprivileged
| * port by default.
| */
| query-source address * port 53;
| check-names master ignore;
|};
|
|zone "." {
| type hint;
| file "root.cache";
| check-names ignore;
|};
|
|zone "derwent.co.uk" {
| type master;
| file "named.hosts";
|};
|
|zone "derwent-discovery.com" {
| type master;
| file "named.disco";
|};
|
|zone "isinet.co.uk" {
| type master;
| file "named.isinet";
|};
|
|zone "78.123.193.in-addr.arpa" {
| type master;
| file "named.hosts.rev";
|};
|
|zone "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa" {
| type master;
| file "local";
|};
|
|
|-- Attached file included as plaintext by Listar --
|-- Desc: Untitled
|
|Message-ID: <200001071437.OAA07005 at ftp2.derwent.co.uk>
|From: root <root at ftp2.derwent.co.uk>
|To:
|Subject:
|Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2000 14:37:14 -0000
|MIME-Version: 1.0
|X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21)
|Content-Type: text/plain;
| charset="iso-8859-1"
|
|; First field is name of primary nameserver.
|; Second field is mail address of responsible person, with "@" -> "."
|; Serial number *must* be increased whenever you change this file.
|; Rest are best left alone unless you know what you're doing.
|derwent-discovery.com IN SOA dns1.derwent.co.uk.
|root.derwent.co.uk.  (
| 2000010702 ; serial number YYMMDDN
| 10800 ; refresh every 3 hours
| 3600 ; retry every hour
| 864000 ; expire in ten days
| 900 ) ; time-to-live: 15 minutes
|;;
|;; Name Servers
|;;
|; There must be an A record for ns.company.co.uk. elsewhere in this file.
|; You can't use a CNAME for this.
| IN NS dns1.derwent.co.uk.
| IN NS sec1.dns.uk.psi.net.
| IN NS sec2.dns.uk.psi.net.
| IN NS dom2.derwent.co.uk.
|
|;;
|;; Mail Forwarders
|;;
|; The machines at your site running SMTP servers that are prepared to
|; accept mail from the outside world, plus off-site backups.
|; There must be an A record for mailhost.company.co.uk. elsewhere in this
|; file.  You can't use a CNAME for this.
| IN MX 5 mx0.derwent.co.uk.
| IN MX 10 mx1.derwent.co.uk.
|smtplink IN MX 6 mx0.derwent.co.uk.
|
|
|localhost IN A       127.0.0.1
|mx1 IN A 193.123.78.2
|
|;
|; Put your host names and addresses in here
|;
|
|dns1 IN A 193.123.78.2
|mx0 IN A 193.128.218.18
|
|pipex-gw IN A 193.128.218.1
|
|; CNAME entries
|;mailhost IN CNAME sparc10.derwent.co.uk.
|;www IN CNAME osprey.derwent.co.uk.
|www IN CNAME osprey.derwent.co.uk.
|
|osprey          IN      A       194.202.25.188
|
|