Help! New zones not transferring

Mark Damrose mdamrose at elgin.cc.il.us
Fri May 10 22:15:06 UTC 2002


"Joe Doe" <jj at jj.com> wrote in message news:abguf8$cadr$1 at isrv4.isc.org...
> I'm running Bind 9.1.3 on Linux 7.2.  I have a primary nameserver called
ns
> and a slave called ns2.
>
> 1st question:  Do I need to make an entry in named.conf on the slave for
> each zone or is this done automatically? I've been adding them manually so
> far.
>
> 2nd question: When I initially setup the slave server(ns2) last week all
the
> zones transferred perfectly from ns to ns2.  But yesterday I added another
> zone on ns(which resolves fine) and added the new zone entry in named.conf
> on ns2.  But the zone file doesn't transfer over when I update the serial
> number on ns and restart named.  What do I need to do to transfer new
zones.
> Do I have to setup rndc?  The documentation seems confusing on rndc.  Any
> help would be greatly appreciated.

You've already been told to upgrade and check the logs, but it's not clear
from your description - did you restart *both* nameservers after you added
the new zone?  The slave needs to be restarted in order to see the new zone
in the configuration.




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