Error transferring zone

[phn at icke-reklam.ipsec.nu]

Ronald I. Nutter <ronald_nutter at georgetowncollege.edu> wrote:
> I am setting up a new DNS server at our college.  I am new to Linux so
> please bear with me as I learn.  I get named to start but see the
> following error in messages when trying to transfer a zone from the
> primary dns server -

> Oct 18 13:36:36 pippin named: named startup succeeded
> Oct 18 13:36:37 pippin named[16237]: dumping master file:
> tmp-XXXXyGPpIo: open: permission denied
> Oct 18 13:36:37 pippin named[16237]: transfer of
> 'georgetowncollege.edu/IN' from 68.208.176.2#53: failed while receiving
> responses: permission denied
> Oct 18 13:36:37 pippin named[16237]: transfer of
> 'georgetowncollege.edu/IN' from 68.208.176.2#53: end of transfer

> The server I am setting up will be a secondary DNS.  I am going through
> the Oreilly book I have and doing some googling but so far no luck.

> ron

Your nameserver has no write-rights in the location pointed out=20
by the "file" statement for the zone.

Reason might be that bind could be run as a non-root user. Give the direc=
tory
write permissions for user(bind) or group(bind)=20



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