Zone Transfer not happening

[Douglas, Earl]

I try to perform a zone transfer from my primary server(8.1.2) to my
secondary server(8.1.2); both running on Solaris 2.6
However this is what happens;
The named-xfer process starts up as shown below and just stays there for
while and creates, what seems to be a temporary file( as shown by the "ls
-l" below). Both the "named-xfer" and the temporary zone file remain for
about 2 minutes, and then both they both disappear. In other words the
"named-xfer" process is terminated and the temporary zone file is removed,
leaving me with an unsuccessful zone transfer.

BTW, I am not the admin for the primary server..

Does the primary need to have a "A" record and/or a "NS" record for a zone
transfer to be successful.

Any suggestions or direction is obviously welcomed..

TIA

# ps -ef
root 29235 29233  0 22:23:44 ?        0:00 /usr/sbin/named-xfer -z
sub.domain.com -f sub.domain.com -s 0 -C 1 -P 53 10.20.30.40


# ls -l
-rw-r--r--   1 root     other          0 Oct 25 22:29 sub.domain.com.0e2tsZ

Excerpt from named.conf 
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
options {
        directory "/var/named/pri";
        check-names master warn;                /* default. */
        statistics-interval 5;
        host-statistics yes;
        forwarders { 1.1.1.1; 1.1.1.2; };
        forward only;
        datasize 20M;
};

zone "sub.domain.com" IN {
        type slave;
        file "sub.domain.com";
        masters { 10.196.2.30; };
};


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 Zone Transfer not happening




I try to perform a zone transfer from my primary server(8.1.2) to my
secondary server(8.1.2); both running on Solaris 2.6 

However this is what happens; 
The named-xfer process starts up as shown below and just stays there for
while and creates, what seems to be a temporary file( as shown by the "ls -l"
below). Both the "named-xfer" and the temporary zone file remain for about 2
minutes, and then both they both disappear. In other words the "named-xfer"
process is terminated and the temporary zone file is removed, leaving me
withan unsuccessful zone transfer. 

BTW, I am not the admin for the primary server.. 

Does the primary need to have a "A" record and/or a "NS" record for a zone
transfer to be successful. 

Any suggestions or direction is obviously welcomed.. 

TIA 

# ps -ef 
root 29235 29233  0 22:23:44 ?        0:00 /usr/sbin/named-xfer -z
sub.domain.com -f sub.domain.com -s 0 -C 1 -P 53 10.20.30.40 


# ls -l 
-rw-r--r--   1 root     other          0 Oct 25 22:29 sub.domain.com.0e2tsZ 

Excerpt from named.conf 
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 
options { 
        directory "/var/named/pri"; 
        check-names master warn;                /* default. */ 
        statistics-interval 5; 
        host-statistics yes; 
        forwarders { 1.1.1.1; 1.1.1.2; }; 
        forward only; 
        datasize 20M; 
}; 

zone "sub.domain.com" IN { 
        type slave; 
        file "sub.domain.com"; 
        masters { 10.196.2.30; }; 
}; 

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présente
que toute diffusion, distribution ou reproduction de ce document est
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toute
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