DNS - Primary down the slave doesnt do anything

[Mark Damrose]

Since you didn't specify your domain(s), or give any of the config info,
it's hard to tell.

Guess: what's the expire value on the SOA record?

<hayden.wimmer at lwbref.com> wrote in message
news:a24gc0$ipu at pub3.rc.vix.com...
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> when my primary DNS server went down the salve stopped working too.  it
> could no longer do lookups and all of the clients were toast too...they
> could not get anywhere.  as soon as i had the master server back up all
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> well....
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> also, i am running bind 8.2.1 on redhat 6.2...
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> any advice?
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