non-authoritative zone (NOTAUTH) problem in bind on debian

[Kevin Darcy]

Pete Ehlke wrote:

> On Sun, Aug 11, 2002 at 11:30:59AM -0500, David A. Cornelson wrote:
> > I have over 50 domains in my linux dns setup. This is the primary dns. I
> > also second all of these domains on a win2k/.net server. I've never had a
> > problem until now.
> >
> > I have two domains, rdocuments.com and overthehillfarm.net that won't update
> > on the secondary server. The syslog entries are:
> >
> > Aug 11 11:15:47 zork named[188]: client 64.81.228.30#1557: bad zone transfer
> > request: 'rdocuments.com/IN': non-authoritative zone (NOTAUTH)
> > Aug 11 11:16:47 zork named[188]: client 64.81.228.30#1558: bad zone transfer
> > request: 'overthehillfarm.net/IN': non-authoritative zone (NOTAUTH)
> >
> > The host files are:
> >
> > $ttl 1
>   ^^^^^^
>
> > rdocuments.com. IN      SOA     zork.plover.net. dave.plover.net. (
> >                         2001081902
> >                         10800
> >                         3600
> >                         604800
> >                         86400 )
> > rdocuments.com.         IN      NS      zork.plover.net.
> > rdocuments.com. IN      NS      placetserv.placet.com.
> > rdocuments.com.         IN      A       64.81.228.30
> > ;rdocuments.com defs
> > rdocuments.com.         IN      MX      10      plover.net.
> > mail                    IN      A       64.81.228.29
> > ;rdocuments.com CNames
> > www                     IN      CNAME   rdocuments.com.
> >
> > $ttl 1
>   ^^^^^^
> > overthehillfarm.net.    IN      SOA     zork.plover.net. myron.plover.net. (
> >                         1028162483
> >                         10800
> >                         3600
> >                         604800
> >                         38400 )
>
> What reason do you have for setting a one *second* TTL on all your
> records?

As questionable as that is, I don't think it is technically illegal.

Offhand, the zone files look OK to me. David, what's in your logs at zone load
time?


- Kevin