reverse zone transfers between slaves timing out

[Kevin Darcy]

That's not a timeout. The zone transfer is failing because the master is not answering authoritatively for the zone. This is almost certainly because the zone
did not load properly, probably because of some sort of syntax error in the zone file. Look at the logs on the master to see what the cause is.

                                                                                                    - Kevin

Andreas Schuldei wrote:

> please cc me, I am not on this list
>
> I have several name servers under my control, they are connected
> through several VPNs.
>
> to reduce name lookup throughout this network I try to make the
> servers exchange the zone files an act as secondarys.
>
> the forward zone files transfer OK, but the reverse ones keep
> timing out.
>
> This is an exaple from the logs:
> Mar 28 23:56:24 gateway named[10081]: Err/TO getting serial# for "31.168.192.IN-ADDR.ARPA"
> Mar 28 23:56:24 gateway named-xfer[4222]: [195.84.105.112] not authoritative for 31.168.192.IN-ADDR.ARPA, SOA query got rcode 0, aa 0, ancount 0, aucount 13
>
> I also turned on debugging, but did not really know what was
> helpful.
>
> how can I find out why? is this a common problem? is it solved,
> even?
>
> please cc me, I am not on this list