refresh times out from Win DNS

Danny Mayer mayer at gis.net
Fri Jul 16 20:47:37 UTC 2004


At 09:55 AM 7/16/2004, Barry Finkel wrote:
>I am assuming that the Windows DNS masters are either W2k or W2k+3.
>The only idea I have is to turn on full logging on the Windows DNS
>Server and see what it logs.  The MS W2k DNS code does not log failed
>zone transfers in the EventLog, only successful ones.  (The MS
>developers did not want to fill up the event log.)  So the only way
>to see a failed zone transfer on the MS side is to look at the dns.log
>file.  That will tell you if the AXFR/IXFR request is reaching the
>windows DNS Server; it will not tell you why the transfer was refused.
>If you find that the request is getting to the Windows DNS Server, then
>report back as to what is in the log.

Why bother logging something that needs to get fixed? Sigh.

Danny



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