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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