bind 9.2.2, slave generating too many soa queries

[Kimo R.]

kimor79 at hotmail.com (Kimo R.) wrote in message news:<bgoqcp$to$1 at sf1.isc.org>...
> Hello,
> 
> I have bind 9.2.2 running on three FreeBSD 4.8 servers. One is setup
> to master for all my domains, and the other two are slaves to the
> master. On one slave, there are always about 90 soa queries happening:
> 
> master:
> number of zones: 2285
> debug level: 0
> xfers running: 0
> xfers deferred: 0
> soa queries in progress: 1
> query logging is OFF
> server is up and running
> 
> slave 1:
> number of zones: 2285
> debug level: 0
> xfers running: 0
> xfers deferred: 0
> soa queries in progress: 87
> query logging is ON
> server is up and running
> 
> slave 2:
> number of zones: 2285
> debug level: 0
> xfers running: 0
> xfers deferred: 0
> soa queries in progress: 0
> query logging is ON
> server is up and running
> 
> In the logs on slave 1, I see being repeated for many domains:
> 
> Aug 04 11:46:58.498 zone mydomain.com/IN: refresh: failure trying
> master master#53: timed out
> Aug 04 11:46:58.498 zone mydomain.com/IN: refresh: retry limit for
> master master#53 exceeded
> 
> Any ideas on why one slave would have so many soa queries but not the
> other slave? In all of our servers and domain registrations, "slave 2"
> is the primary and "slave 1" is the secondary.
> 
> Thanks
> Kimo


Nevermind. I figured it out. Bind chose port 1434 as the "random port"
to use for the transfer source. This port was being blocked by our
routers due to all the Microsoft vulnerabilities. I set
transfer-source and everything is ok now.

Kimo