secondary dns problem

[Stephen Vaughan]

well, the expire is set to 604800 on the primary dns.... I did notice while
the primary dns was down the secondary continued to try and refresh the
zones, I could see the timeouts in the syslog... is that whats causing it?
On 8/9/06, Barry Margolin <barmar at alum.mit.edu> wrote:
>
> 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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> Barry Margolin, barmar at alum.mit.edu
> Arlington, MA
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Best Regards,
Stephen