slave not updating or creating ofd zone files

Thu Mar 29 21:59:25 UTC 2012

First find out if that IS the case: on master, is SOA serial updated
when FILE serial is (after reload)? If so, no problem.

If not, chroot is oneof the usual culprits, you update file in
/var/named/..., but bind loads file in /var/named/chroot/var/named/data/...

So in your filesystem, find ALL "zone" files, check which are used by
bind and which you update.

This is not rocket science, just normal file management. Usually the
file in /var/named/... is a link to the file in
/var/named/chroot/var/named/... - maybe you managed to break that link
by editing the wrong file, go searchin your own file structure.

On 29/03/12 20:39, Computer King wrote:
> OK but how do I correct the issue 
> Sent from my Nexus 1
>
> Sten Carlsen <stenc at s-carlsen.dk> wrote:
>
> It has sometimes been seen that the files that are updated are not the
> files actually loaded, this could be such a case?
>
> On 29/03/12 10:58, RYAN M. vAN GINNEKEN wrote:
>>     Hello all i have what is to me a very strange bind 9 master slave
>>     transfer issue.
>>
>>     When i update a zone file on the master the file updates correctly
>>     the notifies are sent and every thing seems to work perfectly
>>     except it transfers 0 bytes to the slave.  Checking the slave
>>     confirms that indeed thier was no transfer and that the slave is
>>     still serving the old zone, i have gon as far as to completely
>>     delete the zone files from the slave and restart bind to my
>>     suprise it puts back all the old files.  What is going on?  Below
>>     is an example of one of the files that is not updating correctly
>>     there are many and some of file I have updated more recently are
>>     not even showing up in the logs of the server.
>>
>>     On the server Ubuntu 8.04 LTS running BIND 9.4.2-P2.1 chrooted
>>     29-Mar-2012 06:03:39.461 general: info: zone
>>     jodygamracy.com/IN/external <http://jodygamracy.com/IN/external>:
>>     loaded serial 2012031501
>>     29-Mar-2012 06:03:39.614 notify: info: zone
>>     jodygamracy.com/IN/external <http://jodygamracy.com/IN/external>:
>>     sending notifies (serial 2012031501)
>>     29-Mar-2012 06:03:41.761 xfer-out: info: client
>>     96.51.192.233#33074: view external: transfer of
>>     'jodygamracy.com/IN <http://jodygamracy.com/IN>': IXFR ended
>>
>>     On the slave Ubuntu 10.04 LTS  BIND 9.7.0-P1
>>     29-Mar-2012 00:03:41.666 general: info: zone
>>     jodygamracy.com/IN/external <http://jodygamracy.com/IN/external>:
>>     Transfer started.
>>     29-Mar-2012 00:03:41.706 xfer-in: info: transfer of
>>     'jodygamracy.com/IN/external <http://jodygamracy.com/IN/external>'
>>     from 204.244.122.132#53: connected using 96.51.192.233#33074
>>     29-Mar-2012 00:03:41.782 xfer-in: info: transfer of
>>     'jodygamracy.com/IN/external <http://jodygamracy.com/IN/external>'
>>     from 204.244.122.132#53: Transfer completed: 0 messages, 1
>>     records, 0 bytes, 0.076 secs (0 bytes/sec)
>>
>>     As a side not i have both machines firewalled, but have port 53
>>     open on both machines, and have ports set using this in these
>>     lines in the named.conf. file
>>           query-source address * port 53;
>>                 transfer-source * port 53;
>>                 notify-source * port 53;
>>
>>     and see this in the dameon logs
>>     /etc/named.conf:9: using specific query-source port suppresses
>>     port randomization and can be insecure.
>>
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>> Enlarge your serial!
>>
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>>
>> I've tried that had this problem for awhile that is why serial was not
>> dated today just picked a random zone file anyways i updated the
>> serial with todays date and still get the same behaviour.  Strange but
>> the times are messed up i checked the time/date on both machines they
>> are very similar what is with the wierd log times?
>> .
>> 29-Mar-2012 08:44:06.883 notify: info: zone
>> jodygamracy.com/IN/external: sending notifies (serial 2012032901)
>> 29-Mar-2012 08:44:09.093 xfer-out: info: client 96.51.192.233#43819:
>> view external: transfer of 'jodygamracy.com/IN': IXFR ended
>>
>>
>>
>> 29-Mar-2012 02:41:45.829 xfer-in: info: transfer of
>> 'jodygamracy.com/IN/external' from 204.244.122.132#53: Transfer
>> completed: 0 messages, 1 records, 0 bytes, 0.072 secs (0 bytes/sec)
>>
>> I get lots of these 0 bytes transfers everytime i try to edit a zone
>> file now they keep poping up and zones never get updated on the slave
>> it just keeps trying and getting 0 bytes
>>
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