secondary dns problem

[Stephen Vaughan]

hmm.... but when I was running dig and nslookup on the secondary dns the
queries were timing out
On 8/9/06, Mark Andrews <Mark_Andrews at isc.org> wrote:
>
>
> > well, the expire is set to 604800 on the primary dns.... I did notice
> while
> > the primary dns was down the secondary continued to try and refresh the
> > zones, I could see the timeouts in the syslog... is that whats causing
> it?
>
>         The secondary trying to check if the copy of the zone it has
>         is up to date.  If the primary is down there is nothing to
>         answer the queries so they time out.  This is normal and does
>         not impact on the secondary's ability to answer queries.
>
> > On 8/9/06, Barry Margolin <barmar at alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> > >
> > > In article <ebbhp4$lra$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
> > > "Stephen Vaughan" <stephenvaughan at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > > I have setup 2 nameservers using bind. One of them is acting as a
> > > secondary
> > > > dns and it transfers the zones from the primary. My problem is, when
> the
> > > > primary dns server goes down I am unable to query the secondary dns.
> If
> > > the
> > > > primary dns server is up, I can query the secondary dns fine. Is
> there a
> > > > special setting or something that I've missed?
> > >
> > > When you query the slave DNS "fine", does it return authoritative
> > > responses?
> > >
> > > What is the expire time of the zone?  If it's too short, the zone may
> > > expire on the slave server.
> > >
> > > >
> > > > I can see the query attempt when looking at the logs in the
> secondary
> > > dns,
> > > > but the dig -t that I'm running on another server is timing out...
> > >
> > > --
> > > Barry Margolin, barmar at alum.mit.edu
> > > Arlington, MA
> > > *** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me ***
> > > *** PLEASE don't copy me on replies, I'll read them in the group ***
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Best Regards,
> > Stephen
> >
> >
> >
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> Mark Andrews, ISC
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>



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Best Regards,
Stephen