failed while receiving responses and jnl touching

[drummah]

Does anyone have thoughts on this (below)?  I am not sure why this is
occuring.

Thanks in advance!

Jon Wayne


drummah wrote:
> I need some help in my continuing education with BIND and DNS.  I have
> a firewall running BIND 9 split-DNS slaving off of a wintendows domain
> controller which is master for DNS and running  AD and DHCP.  The W2k
> domain controller is on the internal network side of the firewall.  The
> domain controller is not set to notify.  The zone files on the firewall
> are set to refresh every fifteen minutes, too frequent perhaps.
>
> I am receiving the following logs:
>
> Feb 10 00:18:52 foo named[22143]: journal file
> /etc/namedb.u/foo.foo.foo.net.db.jnl does not exist, creating it
> Feb 10 00:18:52 foo named[22143]: transfer of 'foo.foo.foo.net/IN' from
> 123.4.5.67#53: failed while receiving responses: not exact
> Feb 10 00:18:52 foo named[22143]: transfer of 'foo.foo.foo.net/IN' from
> 123.4.5.67#53: end of transfer
> Feb 10 00:18:54 foo named[22143]: zone foo.foo.foo.net/IN: transferred
> serial 1316824
> Feb 10 00:18:54 foo named[22143]: transfer of foo.foo.foo.net/IN' from
> 123.4.5.67#53: end of transfer
>
> After searching the archives of this group, the closest answer that I
> located was the following:
>
> "This indicated that the IXFR delta contained a request to remove a
> record that did not exist or to add a record that already exists.
> named will treat the zone as being out of sync and retransfer the
> entire zone."
>
> If this is true, then this may explain why the transfer fails and then
> immediatly succeeds.  Please help me to correct this and stop this from
> filling up my logs.  What should I look for and correct?
>
> Also, unlike BIND8, I thought that the jnl file always exists in BIND9
> once DNS is started.  Why does need to create the jnl file over and
> over every 15 minutes?
> 
> Thanks for any insight and replies.
> 
> Jon Wayne