Problems transferring zones to ISP's secondary
erik.andersen at lasat.com
erik.andersen at lasat.com
Fri Jan 7 14:43:42 UTC 2000
"Tindall, Mark" <MTindall at Derwent.co.uk> on 07-01-2000 14:39:35
To: "'bind-users at isc.org'" <bind-users at isc.org>
cc: (bcc: Erik Sørup Andersen/INT)
Subject: Problems transferring zones to ISP's secondary
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Hello,
we currently have the control of two domains - derwent.co.uk and
www.derwent-discovery.com - which are both registered with our DNS server as
the primary and our ISP's as the secondary. The derwent.co.uk domain is
transferring it's zones across to our ISP's with no problems and we can
query their servers successfully. The derwent-discovery.com domain on the
other hand is not transferring at all. The zone files for both of the
domain's exist on our primary DNA server so I know there is no problem with
the connection. I have tried setting up temporary internal DNA servers and
running zone transfers for both domains, with success for the derwent.co.uk
domain but nothing for the derwent-discovery.com domain. This indicates a
problems with the zone files but I cannot see where they are. I have
attached the named.conf file and the zone file which are used to this
message. Any help that someone could give me with this problem would me much
appreciated.
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Mark Tindall
System Analyst
Derwent Information Ltd.
Tel: 0171 424 2093
Fax: 0171 344 2815
Email: mtindall at derwent.co.uk
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From: root <root at ftp2.derwent.co.uk>
To:
Subject:
Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2000 14:38:02 -0000
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// generated by named-bootconf.pl
options {
directory "/var/named";
/*
* If there is a firewall between you and nameservers you want
* to talk to, you might need to uncomment the query-source
* directive below. Previous versions of BIND always asked
* questions using port 53, but BIND 8.1 uses an unprivileged
* port by default.
*/
query-source address * port 53;
check-names master ignore;
};
zone "." {
type hint;
file "root.cache";
check-names ignore;
};
zone "derwent.co.uk" {
type master;
file "named.hosts";
};
zone "derwent-discovery.com" {
type master;
file "named.disco";
};
zone "isinet.co.uk" {
type master;
file "named.isinet";
};
zone "78.123.193.in-addr.arpa" {
type master;
file "named.hosts.rev";
};
zone "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa" {
type master;
file "local";
};
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Message-ID: <200001071437.OAA07005 at ftp2.derwent.co.uk>
From: root <root at ftp2.derwent.co.uk>
To:
Subject:
Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2000 14:37:14 -0000
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; First field is name of primary nameserver.
; Second field is mail address of responsible person, with "@" -> "."
; Serial number *must* be increased whenever you change this file.
; Rest are best left alone unless you know what you're doing.
derwent-discovery.com IN SOA dns1.derwent.co.uk.
root.derwent.co.uk. (
2000010702 ; serial number YYMMDDN
10800 ; refresh every 3 hours
3600 ; retry every hour
864000 ; expire in ten days
900 ) ; time-to-live: 15 minutes
1) You missed a dot ('.') at the end of the domain name
derwent-discovery.com
The soa name field should be "derwent-discovery.com." or just "@"
2) If a record spans over several lines, it should be surrounded by
paranthesis. That is the reason for the parenthesises around the serial
and refresh values. So the soa should look like:
derwent-discovery.com. IN SOA dns1.derwent.co.uk. (
root.derwent.co.uk.
2000010702 ; serial number YYMMDDN
10800 ; refresh every 3 hours
3600 ; retry every hour
864000 ; expire in ten days
900 ) ; time-to-live: 15 minutes
or:
@ IN SOA dns1.derwent.co.uk. root.derwent.co.uk. (
2000010702 ; serial number YYMMDDN
10800 ; refresh every 3 hours
3600 ; retry every hour
864000 ; expire in ten days
900 ) ; time-to-live: 15 minutes
;;
;; Name Servers
;;
; There must be an A record for ns.company.co.uk. elsewhere in this file.
; You can't use a CNAME for this.
IN NS dns1.derwent.co.uk.
IN NS sec1.dns.uk.psi.net.
IN NS sec2.dns.uk.psi.net.
IN NS dom2.derwent.co.uk.
There is no a record for dom2.derwent.co.uk.
;;
;; Mail Forwarders
;;
; The machines at your site running SMTP servers that are prepared to
; accept mail from the outside world, plus off-site backups.
; There must be an A record for mailhost.company.co.uk. elsewhere in this
; file. You can't use a CNAME for this.
IN MX 5 mx0.derwent.co.uk.
IN MX 10 mx1.derwent.co.uk.
smtplink IN MX 6 mx0.derwent.co.uk.
localhost IN A 127.0.0.1
mx1 IN A 193.123.78.2
;
; Put your host names and addresses in here
;
dns1 IN A 193.123.78.2
mx0 IN A 193.128.218.18
pipex-gw IN A 193.128.218.1
; CNAME entries
;mailhost IN CNAME sparc10.derwent.co.uk.
;www IN CNAME osprey.derwent.co.uk.
www IN CNAME osprey.derwent.co.uk.
osprey IN A 194.202.25.188
Hope this will help you
Regards,
Erik Andersen
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