slave transfer troubleshooting issue

[Frank Pikelner]

I have two Debian servers running BIND 9.5.1-p3 (master and slave). I
have taken the configs from a production environment that work, just
changed IP addresses. I am having problems sorting out why the slave
fails to tranfer files from the master. The /var/log/bind/named.log on
the master shows that all relevant zones have been loaded. When I check
the /var/log/bind/named.log file the slave is only loading the defaults:

06-Oct-2009 12:09:45.358 general: info: zone 0.in-addr.arpa/IN/internal:
loaded serial 1
06-Oct-2009 12:09:45.358 general: info: zone
127.in-addr.arpa/IN/internal: loaded serial 1
06-Oct-2009 12:09:45.358 general: info: zone
255.in-addr.arpa/IN/internal: loaded serial 1
06-Oct-2009 12:09:45.362 general: info: zone localhost/IN/internal:
loaded serial 2
06-Oct-2009 12:09:45.362 general: info: zone bind/CH/external-chaos:
loaded serial 1
06-Oct-2009 12:09:45.366 general: notice: running


My named.conf file has an include statement for named.conf.local. I've
checked permissions, files and all seems to be okay. I must be missing
something simple. What is the best way to debug why the slave does not
seem to attempt a transfer of the additional zones from the master?


Thank you,

Frank