Zone transfer problem from master to slave

Solaris2005 rajeshbreddy2 at yahoo.com
Sun Oct 2 01:24:10 UTC 2005


Thanks for your help. Everything is working fine now.


--- Kurt Boyack <kboyack at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 10/1/05, Solaris2005 <rajeshbreddy2 at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> > When I make any changes to a zone file on the
> master
> > server (serial number increased), the changes are
> not
> > getting transfered to Slave server.
> 
> You have the transfer-source and notify-source set
> to the same IP on
> both your master and slave servers. You probably do
> not need to
> specify transfer-source or notify-source on either
> of them. Removing
> those options might solve your problem.

I have removed transfer-source and notify-source on
slave.

> > zone "au.ap.abnamro.com" {
> >         type master;
> >         file
> > "/var/named/master/au.domainname.com.hosts";
> >         allow-transfer { "slaves"; };
> >         };
> 
> Is your file really named au.domainname.com.hosts? I
> would name this
> "db.au.ap.abnamro.com". This could also be your
> problem, but in this
> case you would not be able to resolve names on the
> master either.

Sorry my file is "au.ap.abnamro.com.hosts". 

> 
> Also, you do not have to specify the working
> directory here. You can
> remove the "/var/named/" from the file statement.
> 
> > zone "131.251.134.in-addr.arpa" {
> >         type master;
> >         file "/var/named/master/134.251.131.rev";
> >         allow-transfer { "slaves"; };
> >         };
> 
> The zone should be "134.251.131.in-addr.arpa" and I
> would name the
> file "db.131.251.134".

The zone 131.251.134.in-addr.arpa is correct for the
network 134.251.131.0

> 
> > named.conf on slave:
> >
> > zone "au.ap.abnamro.com" {
> >         type slave;
> > file "/var/named/slave/au.domainname.com.slave";
> >         masters { 134.251.131.50; };
> >         transfer-source 134.251.131.50;
> >         };
> 
> The transfer-source statements in the zone are
> redundant since you had
> already specified them in the global options. The
> "master" statement
> tells the slave where to get the zone from. The
> "transfer-source"
> statement tells the slave which IP address it should
> use to transfer a
> zone. In other words, which IP on the slave should
> be used to transfer
> a zone "to" another server.

I have removed transfer-source statement.

> You should make your named.conf files as simple as
> possible until you
> get them working, then add options as needed from
> there.
> 



		
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