Large Zone transfer from Bind 8/9 - W2K

[Danny Mayer]

At 06:39 PM 8/31/02, Jeffery Jones wrote:



>   I have a zone file that contains much more data than the others;
>it's about 190Kbytes.   When transferring from Bind 8.33 or 9.2.2rc1
>on W2K, all zones transfer to the secondary fine except for the large
>zone file where the transfer fails:
>
>Aug 28 11:59:55.362 transfer of 'example.com/IN' from 192.168.16.3#53:
>failed while receiving responses: end of file
>Aug 28 11:59:55.362 transfer of 'example.com/IN' from 192.168.16.3#53:
>end of transfer
>
>    This happens on both 8.33 and 9.2.2rc1.   This matches the
>description in the previous message
>
>http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=a2ngn4%24sa9%40pub3.rc.vix.com&oe=UTF-8&output=gplain
>
>
>   DIGging the AXFER results in a similar message -
>
>  ;; communications error to 192.168.16.3#53: end of file
>
>   after about 64K of data has been transferred.
>
>  Although this is a potential solution to a different problem, I tried
>the "transfer-format one-answer" statement, but this had no effect.
>
>    Any ideas?

On NT the master (where you are transferring from) needs to be a BIND 9
server. The problem only occurs on BIND 8 masters on NT. I just transferred
a zone with over 30,000 records (requiring 23 messages, according to dig)
to do the transfer. That's well over the 64K data limit. What's the master
really running?  Check your application event log for the version number.
Don't rely on any other method.

Danny