Slave is not authority for its zone

[Mark.Andrews at nominum.com]

> Greetings.
> 
> I've configured the slave server for the zone 64.198.200.in-addr.arpa,
> but can't make it authoritative. I'm checking authority by
> looking at the "aa" flag from the output of dig, as follows:
> 
> emarques at ns:~ 711$ dig @cliserv1.ipaccess.diveo.net.br.
> 64.198.200.in-addr.arpa. soa | grep flags
> ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 1
> 
> As you can see, I don't get "aa".

	Well it is authorative now.  However you do have a typo in the
	NS records you are missing a 's' off 'ipaccess'.

	Mark
> 
> Further details on my configuration are provided below. Any help
> would be very appreciated.
> 
> -x-
> 
> System: BIND 8.2.2 patchlevel 5 on Solaris 7
> Zone:   64.198.200.in-addr.arpa
> Master: ns.ipaccess.diveo.net.br (200.198.64.66)
> Slave:  cliserv1.ipaccess.diveo.net.br (200.198.64.83)
> 
> Problems:
> (1) Slave is not authoritative for its zone.
> (2) Zone is not being saved to slave file.
> 
> What I checked so far:
> (1) The log files don't show any problem with the configuration files.
>     The syslog is working properly -- it receives messages from named.
> (2) The slave machine can transfer the zone from the master
>     (thru named-xfer and dig axfer).
> 
> //
> // master file: named.conf
> //
> zone "64.198.200.in-addr.arpa" in {
>         type master;
>         notify yes;
>         file "master/64.198.200.in-addr.arpa";
>         allow-transfer { 127.0.0.1; 200.198.64.66; 200.198.64.83; };
> };
> 
> //
> // slave file: named.conf
> //
> zone "64.198.200.in-addr.arpa" in {
> 	type slave;
> 	masters { 200.198.64.66; };
> 	file "slave/64.198.200.in-addr.arpa";
> };
> 
> //
> // master file: master/64.198.200.in-addr.arpa
> //
> $TTL 20m
> @               IN      SOA     ns.ipaccess.diveo.net.br.
> hostmaster.ipaccess.diveo.net.br. (
>                 2000091800      ; serial
>                 4h              ; refresh
>                 1h              ; retry
>                 1w              ; expire
>                 20m             ; default minimum TTL
>                 )
>                 IN      NS      ns.ipaccess.diveo.net.br.
>                 IN      NS      cliserv1.ipacces.diveo.net.br.
> 
> 64-95           IN      NS      ns.ipaccess.diveo.net.br.
> 		IN	NS	cliserv1.ipaccess.diveo.net.br.
> $GENERATE 64-95 $ CNAME $.64-95
> 
> -x-
> 
> Thanks,
> --
> Everton
> 
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> 
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