Err/TO getting serial# !

[Barry Margolin]

In article <a9k5o4$gu7 at pub3.rc.vix.com>,
Éric Allard  <bind_ml at telusquebec.net> wrote:
>
>Yes, there a firewall on front of my DNS master!
>I don't know why but when I do a manual transfer with
>the named-xfer command, it doest the transfert. After
>that, I have only to do a kill -HUP of the named and
>everything is working after it!
>Why can I do a manual transfert but the named cannot
>by themselve?

named-xfer uses TCP.  The SOA query that's done by named to decide whether
it needs to run named-xfer uses UDP.  So it sounds like you're allowing TCP
but blocking UDP.

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