secondary dns problem

[Mark Andrews]

> hmm.... but when I was running dig and nslookup on the secondary dns the
> queries were timing out

	And where is resolv.conf pointing?

> 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
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > --
> > Mark Andrews, ISC
> > 1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia
> > PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742                 INTERNET: Mark_Andrews at isc.org
> >
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Best Regards,
> Stephen
> 
> 
> 
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Mark Andrews, ISC
1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia
PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742                 INTERNET: Mark_Andrews at isc.org