not authoritative while zone transfer

[Shaheen]

On Feb 5, 8:02 am, Barry Margolin <bar... at alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> In article <eq4jcb$6m... at sf1.isc.org>,
>  "Wael Shahin" <wael.sha... at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hello List,
> > I am trying to add a zone today abc.def
> > i added the zone on the primary server and tried to update the secondary
> > server but i got the error not authoritative after notify recieved,
>
> This usually means there was a syntax error in the zone file on the
> master server, which prevented it from loading the zone successfully.  
> Check the log on the master for errors.

I thought that would be the problem too and I have double checked the
zone file on the server and created a new zone for testing and it stil
gives the same error and MS DNS is still able to transfer successfully

here is the conf line
zone "example.com" {type master; file "db.example.com"; allow-query
{any;}; allow-transfer {192.168.1.10; 192.168.1.18; };};

here is the zone file
; BIND db file for example.com

$TTL 86400

@       IN      SOA           ns1.nesma.net.sa.
hostmaster.example.com. (
                              06020409   ; se = serial number
                              3h         ; ref = refresh
                              15m        ; ret = update retry
                              3w         ; ex = expiry
                              3h         ; min = minimum
                              )
;//////////////////////////Name
Servers///////////////////////////////////

                IN      NS      ns1.nesma.net.sa.
                IN      NS      ns2.nesma.net.sa.

;/////////////////////////MX
Records/////////////////////////////////////

;               IN      MX      10      mail.domain.tld.
;               IN      MX      20      mail.example.com.

;//////////////////////// A
Records ////////////////////////////////////

                IN      A       123.123.123.123
www             IN      A       123.123.123.123

;/////////////////////// CNAME
Records ////////////////////////////////

ftp               IN      CNAME   www.example.com.
;               IN      CNAME   A.domain.tld.


and here is the log from /var/log/messages for ns1, the master
Feb  5 09:58:00 localhost named[24069]: zone dmtc.edu.sa/IN: loaded
serial 6020501
Feb  5 09:58:00 localhost named[24069]: zone dmtc.edu.sa/IN: sending
notifies (serial 6020501)

Feb  5 10:00:25 localhost named[24069]: client 192.168.1.10#4199:
transfer of 'dmtc.edu.sa/IN': AXFR started
Feb  5 10:00:25 localhost named[24069]: client 192.168.1.10#4199:
transfer of 'dmtc.edu.sa/IN': AXFR ended

but secondary bind DNS is still giving the same error


> Barry Margolin, bar... at alum.mit.edu
> Arlington, MA
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