Zone Transfer

[Danny Mayer]

Barry Margolin wrote:
> In article <dv0qpl$2f70$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
>  "Khaled Hussein" <khaled at palnet.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hi All 
>>  
>>
>> I have installed BIND DLZ and it is working fine but I have one problem in
>> defining slave zones on my master server, I tried to add it in database but
>> with no luck so I added it in the named.conf file but I still cannot get the
>> zone on the server, I mean the server cannot transfer the zone and I cannot
>> fine any logs even in my master server or in new one 
>>
>>  
>>
>> i add the new server IP address in the allow-transfer but with no luck 
> 
> On which server did you add this?  This should be on the master, not the 
> slave.
> 
>> I have tow DNS servers one as master and the other is slave, what is the
>> configuration should I put on both to work properly, the zone can
>> transferred from master to slave 
> 
> The master should have a "master" statement, the slave should have a 
> "slave" statement.  There are examples in the DNS & BIND book that show 
> exactly how they should look.
> 
>> And in the new server when I tried to run named.reload or other commands I
>> got error message 
>>
>>  
>>
>> dns1# named.reload
>>
>> rndc: connect failed: connection refused
> 
> This usually means named isn't running.  Check your log to see why it's 
> crashing.
> 

Not really. It just means that named may not be listening on the port
that rndc is specified to use. There can be a number of different
reasons for that only one of which is that named is not running.

> Maybe you could post your named.conf files from the master and slave and 
> we can tell what's wrong.
> 

And the syslog files.

Danny