DNS error message

[Barry Margolin]

In article <7tvqt5$2hc$1 at carroll.library.ucla.edu>,
Jamie Finestein <jfinestein at mednet.ucla.edu> wrote:
>I get the following error message in my messages file:
>
>Oct 12 09:44:22 ns2 named-xfer[16696]: [149.142.194.60] not authoritative
>for 173.142.149.in-addr.arpa, SOA query got rcode 0, aa 0, ancount 1,
>aucount 3
>
>I am running BIND 8.1.2 on my master and 2 secondary servers.  The unusual
>thing is that I get this error message on only one of my two secondary
>servers during the zone transfer.  I have checked the named.conf file on the
>master and there is no record for that address.  So, I do not know where
>that address is coming from.

You need to check the named.conf file on ns2.  It should have something
like:

zone "173.142.149.in-addr.arpa" {
  type slave;
  masters { 149.142.194.60; }
}

If it's not in the file, perhaps you edited the file but never did an "ndc
reload" to make named re-read it.

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