bind 9.2.2, slave generating too many soa queries

Kimo R. kimor79 at hotmail.com
Mon Aug 4 19:30:24 UTC 2003


Hello,

I have bind 9.2.2 running on three FreeBSD 4.8 servers. One is setup
to master for all my domains, and the other two are slaves to the
master. On one slave, there are always about 90 soa queries happening:

master:
number of zones: 2285
debug level: 0
xfers running: 0
xfers deferred: 0
soa queries in progress: 1
query logging is OFF
server is up and running

slave 1:
number of zones: 2285
debug level: 0
xfers running: 0
xfers deferred: 0
soa queries in progress: 87
query logging is ON
server is up and running

slave 2:
number of zones: 2285
debug level: 0
xfers running: 0
xfers deferred: 0
soa queries in progress: 0
query logging is ON
server is up and running

In the logs on slave 1, I see being repeated for many domains:

Aug 04 11:46:58.498 zone mydomain.com/IN: refresh: failure trying
master master#53: timed out
Aug 04 11:46:58.498 zone mydomain.com/IN: refresh: retry limit for
master master#53 exceeded

Any ideas on why one slave would have so many soa queries but not the
other slave? In all of our servers and domain registrations, "slave 2"
is the primary and "slave 1" is the secondary.

Thanks
Kimo


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