BIND 9.2.1 Refresh Timeout Problem

[Barry Finkel]

Barry Finkel <b19141 at achilles.ctd.anl.gov> wrote:
>> On July 03 I posted:

>>>When I start BIND 9.2.1, the zones are loaded, and I see the "running"
>>>message.  Then I see messages
>>>
>>>     zone xxxxx/IN sending notifies (serial yyyyy)
>>>
>>>for each of the 293 zones.  Then I see messages like this one:
>>>
>>>     Jul  3 07:18:40 titania.ctd.anl.gov named[5037]: zone anl.gov/IN:
>>>       refresh: failure trying master 146.137.96.100#53: timed out
>>>
>>>For some unknown reason the slave can not get to any of its masters.
>>>What could cause this?  The slave server works fine with BIND 8.2.5-REL.

>> There have been no replies on this newsgroup.  I looked at the BIND 9
>> Users newsgroup, and there was a similar posting.  I am posting my
>> problem here (instead of to bind9-users) because I am subscribed to
>> this list, and I assume that the same level of expertise is available
>> here as there.  Is there a need for two different newsgroups?
>>
>> The responses on bind9-users were
>>
>>      1) Change the firewall to accept DNS packets from a high-numbered
>>         UDP port.
>>      2) See transfer-source, notify-source and query-source to let BIND
>>         not use a high-numbered UDP port.
>>
>> I do not have a firewall between my DNS server titania (aka 
>> dns1.anl.gov) and some of my masters.  I ran a number of sniffer traces,
>> and in each case I saw BIND 9.2.1 on dns1 send SOA queries from a
>> high-numbered UDP port to port 53 on each master.  In the trace, which
>> was taken on a router port that spanned the dns1 addresses, I saw
>> responses for each of the SOA queries returning from port 53 on the
>> masters to the high-numbered port on the slave dns1.  Is there any
>> reason why BIND would not be seeing these return responses?  Do I
>> need to change anything in the BIND configuration file?  After I have
>> finished with my testing (when the initial set of refresh failure
>> messages stop appearing in syslog), then I stop 9.2.1 with rndc,
>> edit the named.conf file to comment out the rndc key statements,
>> copy the BIND 8.2.5-REL executable back to named, and restart 8.2.5.
>
>> Note that dns1 is a Solaris 5.6 machine (soon to be 5.8) with three
>> Interfaces.  Is there a problem because I have multiple interfaces?

phn at icke-reklam.ipsec.nu replied:

>You might gave something here.  What if you explicitly states 
>"listen-on for all your addresses ?

I tried

     listen-on { 146.137.64.5; 146.139.254.5; 130.202.20.5; };

this morning; it did not help.

Mark Andrews has requested some debug output, which I will try to get
tomorrow morning.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Barry S. Finkel
Electronics and Computing Technologies Division
Argonne National Laboratory          Phone:    +1 (630) 252-7277
9700 South Cass Avenue               Facsimile:+1 (630) 252-4601
Building 222, Room D209              Internet: BSFinkel at anl.gov
Argonne, IL   60439-4828             IBMMAIL:  I1004994