Parent zone rejected on problems with slave zone

[Barry Margolin]

In article <bupaib$1vmo$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
 gorf_55555 at hotmail.com (Peter L) wrote:

> We have a very strange problem.  Our root, corpx.com has many children

Please don't use the word "root" in DNS discussions unless you mean the 
real root zone ".".  You have a domain and subdomains, not a root.

> that it slaves for.  They are not delegated, but we pull the zones as
> slave.  Ocassionally, when one of these zones' NS goes off line or
> whatever, this child zone will expire.  Upon that event our root

Maybe you should increase the expire times in these zones, so they don't 
expire so quickly.  I recommend at least a week.

> nameserver for corpx.com says " master zone "corpx.com" (IN) rejected
> due to errors".  As soon as we either correct the connection to the
> slave zone and get a good zone transfer, or comment out that slave
> zone in named.conf, the root server is fine again.  What is going on
> here?

It would help if you told us what the errors are.  They should be the 
log messages preceding the one that says "rejected due to errors".

-- 
Barry Margolin, barmar at alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA