Very strange situation, Told I need to enable Zone Transfers

Mark_Andrews at isc.org Mark_Andrews at isc.org
Thu Jun 10 09:54:01 UTC 1999


	You need to find out where you made a syntax error in the zone
	file.  Touch the zone file and reload the server.  Named will
	log the offending line(s) to /var/adm/messages.

	Zone transfers will not take place until you fix this error.

	Mark
> Hi,
> 
> This may seem strange but here goes,
> 
> I tried to add some secondary DNS's to our domian webfront.net.au, But
> I keep getting told our Primary DNS server (www.webfront.net.au) is not
> Authorative for webfront.net.au
> 
> This server has been the primary DNS for over 2 years since it was registered
> .
> 
> Doing a NSlookup on www.webfront.net.au for webfront.net.au responds with a
> non-authorative answer
> 
> Connect.com.au who look after the net.au domains say that I need to enable
> Zone Transfers, will this help? If so how do I enable it, our Primary is
> running 4.something and 8.2 on our secondary.
> 
> I got someone to run DNS Expert on the domain and it said it couldn't find
> an Authorative NS for the domain!, Can a domain exist without an
> Authorative NS? 
> 
> I am very confused at the moment and any help would be gratefully appreciated
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Ray
> 
> 
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Mark Andrews, Internet Software Consortium
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