Zone transfer fails - "connection refused"

Mark_Andrews at isc.org Mark_Andrews at isc.org
Wed Sep 22 00:50:09 UTC 1999


> 
> Hi list !
> 
> I maintain several named's of the same version (4.9.7-57). Theese named's
> provide DNS over a dialup network.
> Each server has every other server on the dialup network as secondary in the
> named.boot.
> Everything worked fine until one of the named's started to make truble:
> 
> Evevery zone transfer from that name server now fails with the message
> "Error getting serial for "zone" ... " and
> a message by the zone transfer process "Connection refused".

	There is no nameserver running at the address given for the
	primary of this zone in named.boot.

	Mark
> 
> Every named is providing DNS for his LAN and the named making trouble is
> working fine in all other cases.
> The dialup connection is tested and ok.
> 
> What can be the reason for such a failure ?
> 
> Greetings
> 
> Jan Ole Kastens
> 
> 
> 
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