Bind to NT4 zone transfer issue

Danny Mayer mayer at gis.net
Tue Mar 19 01:33:43 UTC 2002


At 06:44 PM 3/18/02, Michael Conyngham wrote:

>We are running the latest (?) bind 9.1.3 as the primary.  We are
>trying to establish an external seconday DNS on an NT4 box (not hosted
>by us).  We have established that we can get a zone update happing to
>an external linux box, so we are confident that our firewall etc is
>not hindering the transfer process.  There are no error events
>apparent in the logs.
>
>The secondary box is already secondary to many other domains.  OUr
>domain is very simplistic with the zone file being only 3k in size.
>The seconday site can query the DNS without issue but is simply unable
>to transfer the zone (seemingly nothing happens).  The person on the
>NT end is experienced (MSCE)

Experienced in what? MSCE is not a substitute for experience.

Try adding a
server NT4-iup-addr {
transfer-format one-answer;
};

statement to your named.conf on your BIND 9 server or have him
upgrade to BIND on his NT box.  See the ARM for details of the
transfer-format statement.  The NT box probably can't handle the
default many-answers format.

         Danny

         



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