Slave's lack of NS records cause zone file dump

David Botham DBotham at OptimusSolutions.com
Fri Oct 22 13:03:06 UTC 2004


bind-users-bounce at isc.org wrote on 10/22/2004 01:19:27 AM:
> I have a recurring problem, which may be considered a bug, but I'm 
looking for
> advice on how to handle this.  I have a client who added a slave to the 
dns 
> server.  The problem is the master server's zone lacks NS records.  The 
> transfer occurs fine and the slave serves records despite the lack of 
> authority records.  However, if the dns server needed to be restarted 
for some

There is nothing in the protocols that says a name server must be listed 
in the NS RR set in order to sucessfully complete a zone transfere and 
slave the zone.  However, a name server slaving a zone in this fashion 
would probably see little if any requests for information in that zone 
from other name servers, as there is no information in the name space to 
tell people that the name server in question is actually slaving the zone.

> reason (rare occurance luckily) then BIND complains when it loads the 
slave 

Complains how?  In the log?  Could you share the log?

> zone.  It dumps the zone to a filename like db-00016356 in the working 
> directory and returns "Server Failures" to all new requests.  A 
retransfer of 
> the zone is necessary to cause it to work again.

I am not sure what is causing the crash, but, I am fairly crertain that it 
is not a lack of NS RR's in a master zone db file on a different name 
server.

[clipped explaination of why we don't like things that don't work :) ]




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