bind 9.1.0 issues :-\

[Brett Gianpetro]

I am having the same problem with logging zone transfers (see my message
from a couple of days ago, "logging zone transfers in bind
9.1.0").  I've tried using the category "xfer_out", and I've also tried
letting the default logs catch it.  Either way I can't get it to work.  So
I think the question becomes this: Are outgoing zone transfers being
logged at all in Bind 9.1.0?  If so, is it OS specific?  I am also running
Linux (slackware) on x86.

-Brett

On 3 Feb 2001, sidster wrote:

> 
> 
> Greetings,
> 
> A few days ago i upgraded to bind 9.1.0.
> 
> make, make test, make install all went fine and now I have bind 9.1.0
> running on my name servers (Linux machines on x86).
> 
> Everything is fine except the following two issues that I have not yet
> been able to figure out.
> 
> Machine A is master for a few domains and machine B is the slave.
> Machine B also has the duty/previlage to be able to do forwarding with
> my ISPs name servers.
> 
> Issues:
> 
> #1 I can't get machine A to log transfers for whatever reason.
>    Following is a snippet of my /etc/named.conf:
> 
>       logging {
>             channel "xfer_channel" {
>                   file "named-xfer.log";
>                   print-time yes;
>                   print-category yes;
>             };
> 
>             channel "default_debug" {
>                   file "named.log";
>                   print-time yes;
>                   print-category yes;
>             };
> 
>             category "default" {
>                   "default_debug";
>             };
> 
>             category "general" {
>                   "default_debug";
>             };
> 
>             category "config" {
>                   "default_debug";
>             };
> 
>             category "security" {
>                   "default_debug";
>             };
> 
>             category "xfer-in" {
>                   "xfer_channel";
>             };
> 
>             category "xfer-out" {
>                   "xfer_channel";
>             };
>       };
> 
>    Machine B seems to at least log its xfer-in just fine.  Note that the
>    /etc/named.conf files for machine A and B are almost identical; the
>    logging section in particular.
> 
>    I hope someone can find a silly typo that i've not caught in the past
>    few days that i've been pulling my hair out.
> 
> 
> 
> #2 I have my ISP setup a classless in-addr.arpa delegation to me al a
>    rfc2317 (ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2317.txt).
> 
>    For whatever reason as soon as I upgraded to bind 9.1.0 this stopped
>    working.
> 
>    I have not had a chance to speak with my ISP to see whether i'm at
>    fault or they.  I rather find out if i've done something to break
>    this before I call blaming them. :-)
> 
>    I find it quite skrange that this would break exactly when i did my
>    bind upgrade.
> 
>    I do see my ISP hitting my name server port though my firewall but no
>    transfer is taking place of the aa.bb.cc.dd.in-addr.apra zone-file.
>    There are no logs from named in any log files for me to determine
>    what's going wrong.
> 
> 
> 
> I have looked at the BIND mailing list archives and done some searching
> as well as looking at the bind docs (in .html format supplied with their
> source) and I have no where else to turn but this news group.
> 
> Any and all suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Please remove the string 'no-spam.' from my email address before
> replying via email.
> 
> 
> Thanks for reading,
> 
> patrick
> patrick at boxsoft dot com
> --
> It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word.
>       -- Andrew Jackson
>