zone transfer

Kevin Darcy kcd at daimlerchrysler.com
Mon Apr 2 19:29:29 UTC 2001


What are the permissions on the *directory*? The ID that you run
named/named-xfer as, needs to have write access to it.


- Kevin

Raymond Miecznik wrote:

> well, I setup the /etc/named.conf right, the hint and the 0.0.127 were
> copied from dns01... correctly.
>
> then I looked in my messages log file and I noticed a permission denied
> error, named could'nt create the temporary files in:
>
> /var/named/pz for the domains that I wanted to transfer, so I
>
> cd into /var/named/pz and created empty files for the domains.com
>
> after restarting dns01, I seen that I no longer got the error and those
> empty files now had the zone transfer info, so do I have to always
> do this, can't named create the files on it's own ?
>
> Raymond
>
> Kevin Darcy wrote:
>
> >
> > Raymond Miecznik wrote:
> >
> >> I setup my secondary DNS, did everything correctly, I copied the hints
> >> and the 0.0.127 local files, I believe I did everything right for the
> >> zones to get transfered, I gave allow-transfer in the primary and I
> >> indicated on my secondary that it's a slave zone and where the primary
> >> is.
> >>
> >> How do I double check to see if the zone was transfered to my secondary ?
> >
> > What's in the logs?
> >
> > Did a backup zone file get created?
> >
> > Is your slave answering queries in the zone authoritatively?
> >
> >
> > -Kevin
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >





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