What does premature EOF, fetching "some_zone" mean?

Danny Mayer mayer at gis.net
Wed Dec 6 03:31:48 UTC 2000


		I believe that there was a fix for this in the latest 8.2.3 build, but Mark
  would need to confirm that.  There was a problem with the named side of
  the XFR code I believe.  Was this an IXFR or an AFXR?

			Danny

At 05:41 PM 12/5/00 +0000, Jim Reid wrote:
>>>>>> "Anthony" == Anthony Golia <Anthony.Golia at msdw.com> writes:
>
>    Anthony> named-xfer[17909]: premature EOF, fetching "mytestdomain.com"
>
>It means named-xfer has given up trying to read data from the
>network. [Check the source code where this error message is printed.]
>Usually this happens because other end of the TCP connection for the
>zone transfer has gone away without shutting it down properly.
>
>FWIW the behaviour of the name servers for mytestdomain.com is
>odd. Zone transfer requests to them fail, but no error is
>returned. The servers accept inbound queries on TCP connections, so
>it's not a connectivity problem. If the servers were rejecting
>unapproved axfrs, I'd expect them to return a REFUSED response code.
> 



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