secondary dns problem

Barry Margolin barmar at alum.mit.edu
Wed Aug 9 04:26:03 UTC 2006


In article <ebbhp4$lra$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
 "Stephen Vaughan" <stephenvaughan at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> I have setup 2 nameservers using bind. One of them is acting as a secondary
> dns and it transfers the zones from the primary. My problem is, when the
> primary dns server goes down I am unable to query the secondary dns. If the
> primary dns server is up, I can query the secondary dns fine. Is there a
> special setting or something that I've missed?

When you query the slave DNS "fine", does it return authoritative 
responses?

What is the expire time of the zone?  If it's too short, the zone may 
expire on the slave server.

> 
> I can see the query attempt when looking at the logs in the secondary dns,
> but the dig -t that I'm running on another server is timing out...

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