Transfers not working

[Barry Margolin]

In article <e0f6od$jcr$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
 Kevin Darcy <kcd at daimlerchrysler.com> wrote:

> Your zone has errors, all bets are off:

Why?  None of these are errors that BIND could detect and cause zone 
transfer failures.

> 
> 1) Missing trailing periods. You probably don't want named's parser to 
> interpret your strings as "root.localhost.versaterm.com." or 
> "smtp.versaterm.com.versaterm.com.", respectively, but that exactly how 
> they will be interpreted, assuming that you are loading this zone file 
> relative to versaterm.com, because of the lack of trailing periods, and
> 2) NS records point to *names*, not IP addresses.
> 
> While not an *error*, you are also in violation of the Internet 
> requirement that you have at least nameservers for your zone.
> 
>                                                              - Kevin
> 
> Mikhael47 wrote:
> 
> >I have a Bind 9.2.1 server setup with another one as the slave.  If the
> >refresh limit is hit and the serial number on the master is
> >incremented, the transfer does not occur.

Are there any error messages in the log on the master when it loads the 
zone, or on the slave when it tries to perform a zone transfer?

> >
> >Here is what my zone file looks like
> >
> >$TTL 86400
> >@       IN      SOA     dns2.versaterm.com.  root.localhost (
> >                        7 ; serial
> >                        30 ; refresh
> >                        7200 ; retry
> >                        604800 ; expire
> >                        86400 ; ttl
> >                        )
> >
> >
> >dns2    IN      NS      198.73.216.183
> >@       IN      NS      198.73.216.183
> >
> >@       IN      MX      10      smtp.versaterm.com
> >
> >smtp    IN      A       198.73.216.64
> >elliott IN      A       198.73.216.76
> >dns2    IN      A       198.73.217.183
> >craigx  IN      A       198.73.216.131
> >derek   IN      A       198.73.216.51
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >  
> >

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Barry Margolin, barmar at alum.mit.edu
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