More Zone Transfer Stuff

[Kevin Darcy]

If that were the case, the connections would be failing. This should be
obvious from the logs.

Another approach is to try doing the zone transfers manually.


- Kevin

Tim Molloy wrote:

> I posted a message about Zone Tranfers a couple days ago. I got the
> answer I wanted, and it seems what I'm doing is correct. I'm having
> trouble getting my slave server to update it's zone file on a NOTIFY
> from the master. I was told by Kevin Darcy that the way I had it setup
> was correct, and to check my logs. etc to see why I was not getting
> the results I wanted. I have another question about this, which is
> maybe the reason I am having this problem.
>
> My Primary DNS server is behind a firewall, and the slave server is at
> another location, directly connected. Correct me if I'm wrong, but
> seeing as how DNS uses a random port for zone transfers, would it not
> cause a problem if your DNS server is behind a firewall? I'm using
> Linux iptables, in case that makes a difference.
>
> I would appreciate any suggestions in this matter.
>
> thank you