non-authoritative zone (NOTAUTH) problem in bind on debian

Pete Ehlke pde at ehlke.net
Sun Aug 11 19:42:38 UTC 2002


On Sun, Aug 11, 2002 at 11:30:59AM -0500, David A. Cornelson wrote:
> I have over 50 domains in my linux dns setup. This is the primary dns. I
> also second all of these domains on a win2k/.net server. I've never had a
> problem until now.
> 
> I have two domains, rdocuments.com and overthehillfarm.net that won't update
> on the secondary server. The syslog entries are:
> 
> Aug 11 11:15:47 zork named[188]: client 64.81.228.30#1557: bad zone transfer
> request: 'rdocuments.com/IN': non-authoritative zone (NOTAUTH)
> Aug 11 11:16:47 zork named[188]: client 64.81.228.30#1558: bad zone transfer
> request: 'overthehillfarm.net/IN': non-authoritative zone (NOTAUTH)
> 
> The host files are:
> 
> $ttl 1
  ^^^^^^

> rdocuments.com. IN      SOA     zork.plover.net. dave.plover.net. (
>                         2001081902
>                         10800
>                         3600
>                         604800
>                         86400 )
> rdocuments.com.         IN      NS      zork.plover.net.
> rdocuments.com. IN      NS      placetserv.placet.com.
> rdocuments.com.         IN      A       64.81.228.30
> ;rdocuments.com defs
> rdocuments.com.         IN      MX      10      plover.net.
> mail                    IN      A       64.81.228.29
> ;rdocuments.com CNames
> www                     IN      CNAME   rdocuments.com.
> 
> $ttl 1
  ^^^^^^
> overthehillfarm.net.    IN      SOA     zork.plover.net. myron.plover.net. (
>                         1028162483
>                         10800
>                         3600
>                         604800
>                         38400 )

What reason do you have for setting a one *second* TTL on all your
records?


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