NXDOMAIN error - BIND 9/RH7.1

Kevin Darcy kcd at daimlerchrysler.com
Thu Dec 20 19:55:03 UTC 2001


Nardis wrote:

> I have a slave server - RedHat 7.1 running BIND 9.1.0.  When I do an
> nslookup on cs.internal.com I get the following error message:
>
>     ** server can't find cs.internal.com. : NXDOMAIN
>
> NOTE:  cs.internal.com is a CNAME for ns2.internal.com which does
> resolve just fine.
>
> The master (Solaris/BIND 8.2) does not have this problem.

BIND 9.1.0 is quite out of date. You should upgrade to 9.2.0.

Are you sure that the RedHack box is successfully transferring the zone
from the master? It looks like it might be serving up a stale version of
the zone. Compare the SOA serial numbers on the master and the slave.


- Kevin





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