zone transfers
Jeff Grossman
jeff at stikman.com
Sun Apr 7 03:02:48 UTC 2002
Do you have a firewall which could be blocking the connection? You will
need to open up port 53. I think you need udp and tcp open.
Jeff
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Jeff Grossman (jeff at grossman.name)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bind-users-bounce at isc.org [mailto:bind-users-bounce at isc.org] On
Behalf Of Jeff
> Shevlen
> Sent: Saturday, April 06, 2002 7:17 PM
> To: bind-users at isc.org
> Subject: zone transfers
>
> Hi,
>
> My domain's secondary service isn't working properly. The domain's
> slave servers don't seem to be able to perform zone transfers. I
> think the problem is networking related, but I've reached the end of
> my expertise.
>
> I'm running the master server (BIND 9.2). I've created a secondary
> account with granitecanyon.com (a free service, so no customer service
> from them). The domain is currently being resolved properly via my
> primary server, as evidenced by functioning email and webpage.
>
> I have been waiting for granitecanyon's servers to make a xfer request
> to my master, anxiously, but it's not happening. I'm logging
> everything right now, and there is absolutely no reference to xfer's
> at all in my logs. No errors, no warnings, no nothing: which leads me
> to believe this is a networking issue.
>
> For the record, here is the entry for mydomain in named.conf:
> zone mydomain.com {
> type master;
> [ ... ]
> allow-transfer {
> 205.166.226.38; // ns1.granitecanyon.com
> 65.102.83.43; // ns2.granitecanyon.com
> };
> };
>
> My name server is behind the firewall, and this is likely part the
> problem. But when I look through the firewall's logs I don't see any
> evidence of granitecanyon servers being bounced.
>
> Any help is much appreciated.
>
> And also, maybe someone could fill me in on how zone transfer
> transactions occur. I'm curious what server asks what and on which
> port, and how the other server responds. These details aren't in the
> BIND documentation.
>
> Thanks,
> Jeff
>
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