Why are zone tranfers failing?

[Robbie Stone]

"Staalenburg, Juan" wrote:
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> Zone transfer to a secondary name server for my primary domain is failing.  I know that it is related to firewall settings because if I open the name server up to all of IP it work fine.  I would like to limit access to my dns server to only port 53 (TCP and UDP).  But if I set my router up to do this, zone tranfers do not complete.  Can someone enlighten me!
> 
> Thanks.

You need to put this line in the named.conf under "options".

query-source address * port 53;

This will keep everything on port 53.

Later,

Robbie
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Robbie Stone
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