bind 9.1.1: failing zone tranfers

[Thomas Hudson]

Hmm, I'll try that again (this time without unexpected truncation)...

> >         Yes, your dial on demand software is dropping the packet
> >         or took too long to establish the link.
>
> The software I use is the same as before with bind-8.2.3.
> But there were no problems with zone transfers with dialup.
>
I was getting problems with "timed out" and even "retries exceeded", despite
the fact that I could see by using snoop on both ends that each request was
receiving an immediate response.
On the off-chance I tried explicitly setting the max-transfer-time-in and
max-transfer-idle-in to their default values (120 and 60 respectively).
Since then I've not been getting timeouts.

Try adding:

        max-transfer-time-in 120;
        max-transfer-idle-in 60;

to your options.

Hope that helps,

Thomas Hudson
Sysadmin
Infocom (UK) Ltd