Zone transfer with "premature EOF,"

[Danny Mayer]

--Charlie--- wrote:

> Hello all,
> We are using BIND 8.2.4 release for both master and slave. The slave can
> perform zone transfer on a "small" zone (less than 1000 records) but on a
> larger zone (more than 30,000 records) it always get the error message:
>
> premature EOF,
>
> We have plenty of memery left on the system so memory was not the problem.
> There is no error logged on the master side.
>
> Any idea how to deal with this problem?

    It's usually because the master is running out of virtual memory. Try
increasing
the page/swap file size on the master and see if that makes a difference.
30,000
records is a lot of data to transfer and that takes memory.

        Danny