Slave to Win2003 DNS

[Jukka Pakkanen]

Matus UHLAR - fantomas kirjoitti:
>>> On 31.10.09 12:07, Jukka Pakkanen wrote:
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>>>> For some reason the slaves don't update the zone unless I restart the 
>>>>  BIND service in the server, and after a while, fail to respond to  
>>>> queries.
>>>>         
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>> Matus UHLAR - fantomas kirjoitti:
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>>> Is the master updating SOA serial?
>>>       
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> On 01.11.09 16:59, Jukka Pakkanen wrote:
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>> It is. And "notify name servers " is  chosen.
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>> Our slave servers are ns1.qnet.fi, ns2.qnet.fi and ns3.qnet.fi.  And the  
>> master win2003 server is xeon.merinova.fi.  The zone is merinova.local  
>> and example host xeonx.merinova.local.
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>> At the moment ns3 is not responding to queries to merinova.local.
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>> Also just made few updates to the zone, the serial in the master is 6240  
>> but the responding slaves ns1 and ns2 still report 6239.
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> there should be something in logs of your BIND servers in such case...
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Actually the ns1 & ns2 had updated the serial when I checked now, ns3 
still "servfail".  Restarted the BIND service and immediately the zone 
is online again in that server as well...