named-xfer: premature EOF

[Barry Margolin]

In article <a2q38n$em4 at pub3.rc.vix.com>, chris  <cherbst at hotpop.com> wrote:
>
>I am trying to troubleshoot a zone transfer problem on a BIND 4 server.
>Running named-xfer -z somedomain.com -f test.db 1.2.3.4 results in:
>
>named-xfer[10616]: premature EOF, fetching "somedomain.com"
>
>the same syntax works fine on other hosts, so I suspect a networking
>issue, not BIND configuration.

What version of BIND is the master running?  If it's BIND 9, make sure
you've configured "transfer-format one-answer".

Another thing that often causes this error is not having the slave in the
"allow-transfer" access list on the master.

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