Changes to zone file not occuring

[Kevin Darcy]

Well, ns1.telstra.net has an old version of your zone, but I can't see any
obvious reason why zone transfers to ns1.telstra.net would be failing (in
fact, I did a zone transfer myself just to verify; hope you don't mind). Your
master (informetech.com, presumably), is answering authoritatively, so that's
not it.

Perhaps you should talk to Telstra. Are they seeing transfer failures on
their end? Are you sure they are even configured as a slave? By the way, are
you aware that ns1.telstra.net apparently has 2 IP addresses now? The glue
records for telstra.net reflect only  139.130.4.5 but the authoritative
servers for telstra.net also give an address of 203.50.0.24 for that name.
Could it be that ns1 is attempting zone transfers from the new address and it
is being blocked? I can see that you don't have an allow-transfer, but
perhaps there's a firewall rule or routing problem of some sort...


- Kevin

Matt Constance wrote:

> We have noticed that our zone file has not been "updated" to other
> servers.
> Our zone file has had a few updates  since the second of Jan howevere even
> though serial has been updated otheres arent seening changes.
>
> This is causeing problems as we are trying to implement subdomains
> dev. and irc. without success.
>
> Our local network sees teh changes and updates without a problem, so it
> appears just seems to be externally that the problems occurs.
>
> We have restarted and reloaded named aswell as the server been rebooted
> still to no avail.
>
> We have successfully made changes to a clients domain chement.com.au
> however not to our own.
>
> Below is the zone file and named.conf file for review.
> HAs anyone heard of or seen this problem before?
>
> -------ZONE FILE--informetech.com---------
>
> ; informtech.com zone file
> ; created 2/1/01 at at ah.net
> $ORIGIN informetech.com.
> @       IN      SOA     informetech.com.  matt.informetech.com.
>                         (2001011806 86400 3600 6048000 184600)
>         IN      NS      informetech.com.
>         IN      NS      NS1.telstra.net.
>         IN      MX      10 mail.informetech.com.
>         IN      A       203.52.96.1
> $ORIGIN informetech.com.
> localhost       IN      A       203.52.96.1
> mail    IN      A       203.52.96.1
> www     IN      A       203.52.96.1
> inf     IN      A       139.130.163.43
> admin   IN      A       203.52.96.1
> ircsex  IN      A       203.52.96.62
> irc     IN      A       203.52.96.61
>
> *       IN      MX      10 mail.informetech.com.
>
> ---------named.conf-------
> /*
>  * A simple BIND 8 configuration
>  */
>
> options {
>   directory "/common/named";
> #  forwarders { 10.21.205.1; 10.21.205.20; };
> };
>
> logging {
>         category lame-servers { null; };
>         category cname { null; };
> };
>
> zone "." in {
>         type hint;
>         file "root.cache";
> };
>
> zone "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa" in {
>         type master;
>         file "named.local";
> };
>
> zone "informetech.com" in {
>   type master;
>   file "informetech.com";
> };
>
> zone "96.52.203.in-addr.arpa" in {
>   type master;
>   file "203.52.96";
> };
>
> zone "chement.com.au" in {
>   type master;
>   file "chement.com.au";
> };
>
> -------------------------------------
>
> Matthew Constance
> Phone: +61 7 3264 7399  Mobile: 0403 294 553
> Fax:   +61 7 3264 7508