Bad zone transfer request

[Chris Thompson]

On Jan 28 2008, jose nuno neto wrote:

>I'm setting up a slave server but can't but the transfers to work.
>fela.liber4e.com is the master
>bowie.liber4e.com is the slave
>
>whenever I try a
>rndc refresh liber4e.zone
>on the slave I get this error on slave:
>transfer of 'liber4e.zone/IN' from 66.7.195.2#53: failed while receiving 
>responses: NOTAUTH
>
>and on MASTER
>client 67.207.133.7#34173: bad zone transfer request: 'liber4e.zone/IN': 
>non-authoritative zone (NOTAUTH)
>
>I can do
>dig @fela.liber4e.com. liber4e.com AXFR
>from the server and gets allowed
>
>This is my named.conf on the master:
>
>zone "liber4e.com" {
>type master;
>file "liber4e.com.hosts";
>allow-transfer 
>{208.11.75.3;216.90.171.3;67.207.133.7;87.98.164.164;195.234.42.1;};
>allow-update 
>{208.11.75.3;216.90.171.3;67.207.133.7;87.98.164.164;195.234.42.1;};
>};
>
>any clues on this? I'm quite puzzled with it....

There's no reference to a zone "liber4e.zone" in your master's 
named.conf (I take it there is on the slave's), so it's hardly suprising
that you can't transfer it! The master really *is* not authoritative
for it.

Did you really mean to call the zone that rather than "liber4e.com"?

-- 
Chris Thompson
Email: cet1 at cam.ac.uk