zone transfer exits

[A. van Drie]

Hi,

i'm running into a problem with zone transfers. This is gonna be a bit of
long story. 

The setup:

ns2:

stripped redhat 6 linux firewall (ip masquerading), running sendmail and
bind, only 6 zonefiles (primary and secondary together). Chrooted bind.
Running fine, zone xfers no problem.

ns1:

same os, less stripped, no firewalling, single ip, running: sendmail,
httpd and bind. Also chrooted, containg five primary zonefiles, and three
secondary for subdomains running primary on ns2. And on this machine those
three zonetransfers exit with a code 13

ns2 allows transfers for ns1. That is confirmed by the logs:

Jan 11 18:27:30 ns2 named[26369]: Sent NOTIFY for "subdomain IN SOA"
(subdomain); 1 NS, 1 A
Jan 11 18:27:30 ns2 named[26369]: Received NOTIFY answer from
IPADDR for "subdomain IN SOA"

It is even confirmed by ns1.



Then ns1. Logs:

Jan 14 23:45:15 ns1 named[9118]: rcvd NOTIFY(subdomain, IN, SOA)
from [IPADDR].53
Jan 14 23:45:15 ns1 named[9118]: named-xfer "subdomain" exited
with signal 13

and in the 'secondary' dir it writes a file called

subdomain.9HB45b

or another seemingly random 6 char string after 'subdomain.' being 0
bytes of size. 

As user 'bind' (of course the user under which bind runs) i issue the
command:

./usr/sbin/named-xfer -d 2 -l /tmp/xfer.loggie -z subdomain -f \
	zone/secondary/subdomain ns2

works fine.

Can anyone already point me in the right direction?

Thank you,

Arjen van Drie.