can't list domain, query refused. same subnet & no restriction

[Barry Margolin]

In article <a1kc0f$iht at pub3.rc.vix.com>,
Karvendhan M <karvendhan at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>Hi all,
>
>We have a primary server and one slave server in the same subnet,
>bind version is 4.9.4-P1.
>Earlier I could list the domain from nslookup. Today morning It said,
>can't list domain xx xx Query refused.
>
>The last change what i have done is, changed the A record for the
>domain name ( not the server)  to a CNAME record. But I was able to do
>a listing in slave.
>When I reverted it back, it started working.
>
>My question is, is this problem with bind? or Is it mandatory to have
>a A record for the domain name.?

No.  But it's prohibited to have a CNAME record there.  How many times have
people asked in this group about making the domain name be an alias and
we've told them that it's prohibited because of the "CNAME and other data"
rule.

Didn't you see the error message about this in the log on the master?

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