failed while receiving responses and jnl touching

[Kevin Darcy]

Open a ticket with Microsoft on their crappy zone-transfer implementation.

                                                                         
                           - Kevin

drummah wrote:

>Does anyone have thoughts on this (below)?  I am not sure why this is
>occuring.
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>Thanks in advance!
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>Jon Wayne
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>drummah wrote:
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>>I need some help in my continuing education with BIND and DNS.  I have
>>a firewall running BIND 9 split-DNS slaving off of a wintendows domain
>>controller which is master for DNS and running  AD and DHCP.  The W2k
>>domain controller is on the internal network side of the firewall.  The
>>domain controller is not set to notify.  The zone files on the firewall
>>are set to refresh every fifteen minutes, too frequent perhaps.
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>>I am receiving the following logs:
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>>Feb 10 00:18:52 foo named[22143]: journal file
>>/etc/namedb.u/foo.foo.foo.net.db.jnl does not exist, creating it
>>Feb 10 00:18:52 foo named[22143]: transfer of 'foo.foo.foo.net/IN' from
>>123.4.5.67#53: failed while receiving responses: not exact
>>Feb 10 00:18:52 foo named[22143]: transfer of 'foo.foo.foo.net/IN' from
>>123.4.5.67#53: end of transfer
>>Feb 10 00:18:54 foo named[22143]: zone foo.foo.foo.net/IN: transferred
>>serial 1316824
>>Feb 10 00:18:54 foo named[22143]: transfer of foo.foo.foo.net/IN' from
>>123.4.5.67#53: end of transfer
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>>After searching the archives of this group, the closest answer that I
>>located was the following:
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>>"This indicated that the IXFR delta contained a request to remove a
>>record that did not exist or to add a record that already exists.
>>named will treat the zone as being out of sync and retransfer the
>>entire zone."
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>>If this is true, then this may explain why the transfer fails and then
>>immediatly succeeds.  Please help me to correct this and stop this from
>>filling up my logs.  What should I look for and correct?
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>>Also, unlike BIND8, I thought that the jnl file always exists in BIND9
>>once DNS is started.  Why does need to create the jnl file over and
>>over every 15 minutes?
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>>Thanks for any insight and replies.
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>>Jon Wayne
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