Problems downloading master map from Bind 4.9.3 to 9.1.3
Kevin Darcy
kcd at daimlerchrysler.com
Tue Sep 18 20:42:39 UTC 2001
Mark Andrews wrote:
> I'm trying to setup bind 9.1.3 as a slave for a master running bind
> 4.9.3 from SGI. My version of bind 9 has been compiled locally using the
> default configure script and makefile.
>
> The /etc/named.boot on the master server contains the following entry:
>
> primary zone_name named.hosts
>
> and named.hosts looks like:
>
> $INCLUDE SOA
>
> $INCLUDE named-main.hosts
> $INCLUDE named-fifth.hosts
> $INCLUDE named-assist.hosts
> $INCLUDE named-admin.hosts
> $INCLUDE named-third.hosts
> $INCLUDE named-isdn.hosts
> $INCLUDE named-marketing.hosts
> $INCLUDE named-fourth.hosts
>
> where the individual "named-*.hosts" files contain a combination of A,
> MX and TXT records.
>
> On the machine running bind 9.1.3, the appropriate section of named.conf
> looks okay:
>
> zone "zone_name" {
> type slave;
> file "file_name";
> masters {
> IP_address_of_master_server;
> };
> };
>
> However, when I startup bind 9 on the machine, the zone information
> isn't transferred from the master. If I run named in debug mode (with
> level 5), I see the following in named.run:
>
> dns_zone_load: zone zone_name/IN: no master file
>
> All of the reverse-map zone files are loaded correctly, but they're
> split into files which indicate the different networks they represent:
>
> network1.rev
> network2.rev
> ...
>
> Any pointers as to what's going on would be appreciated.
There should be other messages in the debug output indicating a problem.
Look for the strings "transfer" and "xfer" in conjunction with the name of
the zone.
- Kevin
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