Need input on message : Err/TO and other issues
Mark_Andrews at isc.org
Mark_Andrews at isc.org
Wed Oct 20 04:20:30 UTC 1999
>
> Greetings,
>
> bind 8.1.2
>
> Five lines messages below are for a zone-transfer.
> nffbi.unm.edu happen to be primary in this case.
> Those lines are from logs of the secondary (slave).
Well it always helps to get the full lines.
>
>
> Question1:
> With all those descriptive error messages I wonder why
> the transfer finally did go thru?
They changed something. They realised there was an error in
the zone file and corrected it.
>
>
> Question2:
> Am I correct to translate "authoritative" in 2nd line
> to mean that named.conf of nffbi.unm.edu has some
> kind of directive (allow-transfer) preventing the
> transfer? But that can't be as they claim nothing
> has changed on their side!
I means that when the SOA query was made it came back without
the authoritive answer (aa) bit set. Normally this is the result
of a syntax error in the master zone file. Answers from
the cache also have the aa bit clear.
Mark
>
>
> What is your general thoughts on these errors?
>
>
> Thanks,
> Farid
>
> Err/TO getting serial# for "nffbi.unm.edu"
> [198.59.134.25] not authoritative for nffbi.unm.edu, SOA query got rcode 00
> host name "nff\008\008" IN (response from [192.203.230.10]) is invalid - proc
> eey
> zone transfer timeout for "nffbi.unm.edu"; pid 19394 missing
> slave zone "nffbi.unm.edu" (IN) loaded (serial 19991018)
>
>
>
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