Bind as DNS slave to Server 2003 failing with NODATA on zone transfers

Mark Andrews Mark_Andrews at isc.org
Wed Jul 13 23:58:17 UTC 2005


> All:
> 
> I am running a Windows server 2003 as the master for several domains.
> I am running Bind 9.2.3 under Redhat Linux 8.  I am not able to
> successfully slave a zone that is mastered under Windows Server 2003
> despite explicitly allowing for it.
> 
> The error in Bind is "refresh: NODATA response from master" when it
> tries to transfer the zone.  While I suspect the problem is on the
> Windows end I cannot resolve it.
> 
> Has anyone encountered a similar error?  Any tips?

	Named asked for the SOA record of the zone and got back
	a answer that said the name exists but there is no SOA
	record.

	You could get this when the zone's name is example.net and
	you try to transfer sub.example.net and sub.example.net
	exists and is not seperate zone.

	Mark

> Thanks,
> 
> Jim
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