"shut down: operation canceled" on zone transfer

[Mark Andrews]

In message <4BCBB36F.6040504 at argoinf.com>, Peter Skipworth writes:
> Hello,
> 
> I have a primary and secondary nameserver which host a number of
> domains. Recently, the secondary has started failing to sync one of the
> domains, and comes up with the following...
> 
> Apr 19 10:46:06 fw2 named[24065]: transfer of 'mydomain.com.au/IN' from
> 203.XXX.YYY.ZZZ#53: shut down: operation canceled
> Apr 19 10:46:06 fw2 named[24065]: transfer of 'mydomain.com.au/IN' from
> 203.XXX.YYY.ZZZ#53: end of transfer

What else is being logged?
Can you transfer the zone using dig from the slave, from somewhere else?

> The zone file on the zone fails to update. All other domains (200+) are
> replicating perfectly.
> 
> I am not seeing anything unusual in the logfiles on the primary - it
> shows that the zone has been transferred.
> 
> I've tried making a copy of the zonefile as a test on the master as a
> new test domain, and transferring that to the slave, and it works fine -
> so I think I can discount any errors in the zonefile itself. I've also
> tried reverting to a copy of the primary zone file from two weeks ago,
> and this hasn't helped.
> 
> Anyone have any clues ?
> 
> Bind version bind-9.2.4 under CentOS on both servers.
> 
> Ta,
> 
> P
> 
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