OK, I have a head scratcher

[Barry Margolin]

In article <865ls9$db8$1 at spock.dis.cccd.edu>,
Jim Cline <jcline at mail.ccc.cccd.edu> wrote:
>Or I am just brain dead.
>I am charged with maintaining a DNS for the community college where I work.
>My DNS covers several subdomains, the main domain is administered at our
>district office.  The are also three other campuses that run their on DNS on
>their assigned sub-domains.  We are planning to upgrade our DNS soon (within
>the next two weeks) but I have no desire to transfer the strange problems we
>have been dealing with since the new year...
>
>1) Sometimes we can reach servers at our district and sometimes we can't
>2) I can force zone transfers with the district master DNS with named-xfer
>but when I run named.restart I get the following errors (Note edit
>3) the transfers among the other three campuses and us runs without a hitch.
>
>   Jan 19 16:28:25 lazarus named[26235]: starting.  named 4.9.3-REL Tue Apr
>2 09:46:40 PST 1996
>   Jan 19 16:28:25 lazarus  root at lazarus:/export/home/maint/named
>   Jan 19 16:28:26 lazarus named[26235]: db.sec.cccd: line 6: SOA for
>"cccd.edu" not at zone top "dis.cccd.edu"
>   Jan 19 16:28:27 lazarus named[26235]: Zone "dis.cccd.edu" (file
>db.sec.cccd): no NS RRs found at zone top
>   Jan 19 16:28:28 lazarus named[26236]: zoneref: Masters for secondary zone
>"dis.cccd.edu" unreachable

There doesn't seem to be a dis.cccd.edu zone on spock.dis.cccd.edu.  It
looks like this is an undelegated subdomain in the cccd.edu domain.  You
can only perform zone transfers of entire zones, not subdomains.

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