Zone Transfer Problems

[Roy Arends]

On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Smith, William E. (Bill), Jr. wrote:

> Our secondary servers are acting as secondaries for another company's
> reverse zones who is working on a project with us.  For no apparent
> reason(at least that we can determine right now), one of the
> secondaries stopped transferring the zone.  We've tried a manual zone
> transfer to no avail either.  We can see an attempt to transfer the
> zones being made since we see the temp files that are created during
> the transfer but then that process just stops and there's no reverse
> zone files. We turned on debugging but nothing really stood out as to
> what the problem is.  We don't see any permission errors or any errors
> in syslog, etc.  2 of our secondaries are running 8.2.2 P5 and a third
> 8.2.3.  The problem server is one of the ones running 8.2.2 P5.  Any
> ideas as to what could be going on or any suggestions for
> troubleshooting this further.

Big chance the secondary running 8.2.2 P5 is compromised. Are you sure the
secondary is up at all ?

Please upgrade and provide config/zonefiles/logs/os-info (and don't
obscure information when providing this info), so someone might be able to
help you.

Regards,

Roy Arends
Nominum