xfer erase soa records?

[Danny Mayer]

Hannah O Day wrote:

> Sorry, Danny,
>
> Here is what's in the syslog file:
>
> Jun 20 07:36:39 rchname3 named[7254]: Zone "rchland.ibm.com" (file
> rchland.zone): no SOA RR found
> Jun 20 07:36:39 rchname3 named[7254]: slave zone "rchland.ibm.com" (IN)
> rejected due to errors (seri
> al 1009061)
>
> Yes, it looks like only the soa is erased.  SOA does exist in master
> zones..

Did you look at the SOA on the master and verify that it's valid?
Try doing a manual zone transfer using dig:
dig @master.ibm.com rchland.com axfr

where master is whatever the name of your master is. You should see the SOA
record twice in the output: the first record and the last record.  This is what
the RFC's require.  When you do it, do you get them and are they identical?

    Danny