Fedora Core 2 as a slave - doesn't want to play?

Ronan Flood ronan at noc.ulcc.ac.uk
Wed Jul 7 13:07:31 UTC 2004


mynews44 at yahoo.com (googleboy) wrote:

> The problem is that it doesn't seem to want to write the temp zone
> transfer files.  In messages I get entries like:
> 
> Jul  4 03:52:00 foo named[1789]: dumping master file:
> slave/tmp-XXXXW4C5CY: open: file not found
> Jul  4 03:52:00 foo named[1789]: transfer of 'domain.com/IN' from
> 203.110.141.5#53: failed while receiving responses: file not found
> Jul  4 03:52:00 foo named[1789]: transfer of 'domain.com/IN' from
> 203.110.141.5#53: end of transfer

How come the IP address is different from the master in named.conf?

> The /etc/named.conf file has an entry for the domain:
> 
> zone "domain.com" {
>       type slave;
>       file "slave/domain.com.db";
>       masters { 192.168.141.5; };
> };
> 
> 
> which seems correct according to the info I found on using FC2 as a
> slave.

> I could find no docs confirming that fedora core 2 named tries to put
> the zone tranfers into /var/named/slaves but I am working under teh
> assumption that it does, as that directory is preexisting,  with
> ownership of named.naemd and permissions of 770.   I opened it up to
> 777 and still had no joy.    I am sure that it must be pretty obvious
> and clear,  but I can't see it just now.

You have

  file "slave/domain.com.db";

when it should be

  file "slaves/domain.com.db";

no?

-- 
                      Ronan Flood <R.Flood at noc.ulcc.ac.uk>
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