Zone transfers fro secondary

Mark_Andrews at isc.org Mark_Andrews at isc.org
Wed Nov 19 19:46:56 UTC 2003


> Hi
> Thanks to Dave for helping me sort out the problem.
> 
> Ran the following tests which showed the problem was with the master server.
> 
> Dig axfr ... failed
> dig soa .. ok
> dig (+tcp/+vc) ... failed tcp session
> dig (+tcp/+vc) against 'open server' ... which worked implying server is ok
> 
> Thanks
> Cheers
> sherona

	Well you still have problems.  You have a listed nameserver
	not accepting TCP connections from the world.  Ordinary
	queries use TCP as well as AXFR.  If you want to restrict
	AXFR this should be done via access controls in the nameserver
	not at the packet layer.

	Mark
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