zone transfers timeout in bind but work via dig

[Mark Jeftovic]

On Wed, 29 Sep 2004, Barry Margolin wrote:

> In article <cjf8ni$cfc$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
>  Mark Jeftovic <markjr at c3po.easydns.com> wrote:
>
> > What is the difference between doing an AXFR or IXFR from the command
> > line using dig, and then having bind9 timeout on the refresh when it
> > tries to do it in production?
>
> Before named does an AXFR or IXFR request, it queries for the SOA record
> to see if a the serial number has incremented, since a zone transfer
> would not be necessary if the serial number is unchanged.

That's not the case here, the serial has changed, in fact we're getting
the NOTIFY packets, then when bind9 starts the transfer, it times out.

-mark