BIND 8.2 Zone Transfers take forever

[Mark.Andrews at iengines.com]

	For each of the zones you are having a problem with request
	the SOA for that zone from the master server with recursion
	disabled.

	e.g.
		dig +norec SOA zone @master

; <<>> DiG 8.2 <<>> +norec soa vix.com @ns-ext.vix.com 
; (1 server found)
;; res options: init defnam dnsrch
;; got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 14210
;; flags: qr aa; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 2
;; QUERY SECTION:
;;	vix.com, type = SOA, class = IN

;; ANSWER SECTION:
vix.com.		1H IN SOA	ns-ext.vix.com. hostmaster.vix.com. (
					1999101600	; serial
					1H		; refresh
					30M		; retry
					1W		; expiry
					1H )		; minimum


;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
vix.com.		1H IN NS	ns-ext.vix.com.
vix.com.		1H IN NS	ns1.gnac.com.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
ns-ext.vix.com.		1H IN A		204.152.184.64
ns1.gnac.com.		19h52m5s IN A	209.182.195.77

;; Total query time: 662 msec
;; FROM: bsdi.dv.isc.org to SERVER: ns-ext.vix.com  204.152.184.64
;; WHEN: Sun Dec  5 09:47:20 1999
;; MSG SIZE  sent: 25  rcvd: 151

	If you didn't get a soa record in the ANSWER section the
	zone is not being served by the master.

	If you didn't get "aa" in the flags section there is a
	syntax error in the master zone file.  Touch the master
	zone file and reload the master server and look at the
	syslog (/var/adm/messages) to see on which line(s) the
	error(s) is(are) and correct them.

	If you do have a aa flag try to transfer the zone using
	dig.

	e.g.
		dig axfr zone @master

	If the zone transfer succeeds you have a problem with the
	slaves setup otherwise you have other problems with the
	master.

	BIND 8.2 leave some droppings behind at times.  These are
	cleand up in later releases.  You may also want to upgrade
	for security reasons. 

	http://www.isc.org/products/BIND/bind-security-19991108.html

	Mark
> 
> "Marko Costa" <marko_costa at yahoo.com> wrote in message news:3847F8A9.BF9F5A04
> @yahoo.com...
> > Hi.
> > 
> > I have a BIND 8.2 master name server and it seems to be working ok.
> > Everybody's using it with no problems.
> > 
> > Now I installed a BIND 8.2 slave name server and the zone transfers
> > from the master take forever.
> > 
> > Some zones take hours to transfer, some never get transferred and
> > I get several zone files with the same name but different endings
> > as if it were doing repeated attempts and failed.
> > 
> 
> 
>   I had this problem at one time because the named-xfer that was actually bei
> ng run was from bind 8.1.2 rather than from bind 8.2 (wrong one was on path a
> head of correct one). check to see that you are actually running correct vers
> ion of named-xfer.
> 
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