Bind as DNS slave to Server 2003 failing with NODATA on zone transfers

[Barry Finkel]

jimmc at irobot.com wrote:

>I am running a Windows server 2003 as the master for several domains.
>I am running Bind 9.2.3 under Redhat Linux 8.  I am not able to
>successfully slave a zone that is mastered under Windows Server 2003
>despite explicitly allowing for it.
>
>The error in Bind is "refresh: NODATA response from master" when it
>tries to transfer the zone.  While I suspect the problem is on the
>Windows end I cannot resolve it.
>
>Has anyone encountered a similar error?  Any tips?

What have you configured in the zone transfer properties for the zone
in question?

Do you have full logging enabled on the W2k+3 DNS server?  If so, what
is in the dns.log file?  
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