zone transfers timeout in bind but work via dig

[Ronan Flood]

Mark Jeftovic <markjr at c3po.easydns.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 29 Sep 2004, Barry Margolin wrote:
>
> > 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.

BIND might still request the SOA over UDP, rather than just believing the
serial number in the notify.

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                      Ronan Flood <R.Flood at noc.ulcc.ac.uk>
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