failed NT4 zone transfers

Danny Mayer mayer at gis.net
Mon Nov 19 00:17:54 UTC 2001


At 07:55 PM 11/16/01, Kimberly O'Brien/OTT/OTI wrote:

>That helped immensely. ATT has now fixed the packet filtering on the
>router. :-)
>
>I'm not getting the timeout anymore, now I get this:
>
>16-Nov-2001 17:11:54.000 load: db_load could not open: vame.db: Errcode:
>2: Errcode: 2: Errcode: 2: E
>
>Interestingly enough, having all the router traffic syslogged now, I can
>see udp 53 messages from the NT to Linux box but no tcp messages. Aren't
>zone transfers supposed to happen on tcp 53?

Apparently ATT needs to do more work if you do not see tcp traffic.  The 
firewall
should allow tcp traffic on port 53 to the master server from your server 
as well
as udp traffic. That's required for zone transfers to work.

         Danny



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