Problems transferring zones to ISP's secondary

[erik.andersen at lasat.com]

"Tindall, Mark" <MTindall at Derwent.co.uk> on 07-01-2000 14:39:35

To:   "'bind-users at isc.org'" <bind-users at isc.org>
cc:    (bcc: Erik Sørup Andersen/INT)

Subject:  Problems transferring zones to ISP's secondary


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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.

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Mark Tindall
System Analyst
Derwent Information Ltd.
Tel: 0171 424 2093
Fax: 0171 344 2815
Email: mtindall at derwent.co.uk



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Message-ID: <200001071438.OAA07012 at ftp2.derwent.co.uk>
From: root <root at ftp2.derwent.co.uk>
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Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2000 14:38:02 -0000
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// 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";
};


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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
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; 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




     1) You missed a dot ('.') at the end of the domain name
derwent-discovery.com
     The soa name field should be  "derwent-discovery.com." or just "@"
     2) If a record spans over several lines, it should be surrounded by
paranthesis. That is the reason for the       parenthesises around the serial
and refresh values. So the soa should look like:

     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

     or:

     @    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.



     There is no a record for 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



Hope this will help you

Regards,
Erik Andersen