Zone not transferring???

[Commerco WebMaster]

Gary,

I experienced something nearly identical.  Though I never really understood 
why this happened, the following seemed to fix it - try a

         transfer-format many-answers;

statement in your named.conf options section - Perhaps some of the more 
enlightened folks on this list may have something better to explain and / 
or fix the problem.

Best,

WebMaster at Commerco.Net
The Commerce Company - Connect Your Dot(sm)
http://WWW.Commerco.Com


At 12:13 AM 10/2/01 -0400, you wrote:

>Hi,
>
>We are stumped.
>
>My friend Bud does the secondary service for several of my domains.  One 
>of them has stopped transferring.  Bud deleted the db file
>and I incremented the serial number and we both restarted named but the db 
>file was not recreated.
>
>I found the following in my log file:
>
>01-Oct-2001 14:26:32.000 notify: info: Sent NOTIFY for "gwsystems.co.il IN 
>SOA 2001100101" (gwsystems.co.il); 1 NS, 1 A
>01-Oct-2001 14:26:33.000 notify: info: Received NOTIFY answer (AA) from 
>216.242.16.193 for "gwsystems.co.il IN SOA"
>
>Bud found this in his log file:
>
>01-Oct-2001 14:26:31.000 rcvd NOTIFY(gwsystems.co.il, IN, SOA) from
>[63.217.189.35].1036
>01-Oct-2001 14:26:31.000 NOTIFY(SOA) for zone already xferring
>(gwsystems.co.il)
>
>But the zone never transfers.
>
>I have opened my firewall to allow all packets from Bud's machine to mine 
>and the reverse but that didn't help.  And, as I said, the
>other zones are fine, it's just this one that has a problem.
>
>So, what is the problem or what should we check.
>
>I have run DNS Expert(eval version) on it and the only things it complains 
>of is the lack of a couple of PTR records in the reverse.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Gary