bind 9.4.1-p1

mark evans evansmb74 at gmail.com
Wed Oct 24 18:34:40 UTC 2007


There was no TSIGs defined. I didn't really see anything odd in the logs. at
least not till the "expired" error messages show up.  You were correct on
the temp files.  seems there was a script being run though cron that was
causing that that issue.  That has since been resolved.
Thank you.



On 10/22/07, Kevin Darcy <kcd at chrysler.com> wrote:
>
> I'm not exactly sure what your problem is here, but vanilla-configured
> BIND 9.x masters and vanilla-configured BIND 9.x slaves should have no
> incompatibility problems whatsoever between them; we've run like that
> for years. You could check the configs on both sides for "server"
> clauses that define TSIG keys or transfer-formats (i.e. "one-answer"
> versus "many-answers"), that could be giving you problems, but I doubt
> you'll find any.
>
> You should also look in the logs on both sides for any errors.
>
> As for those temp files, it's a little mystifying to me. Those files
> typically get left behind when some sort of fatal error occurs during
> the zone transfer. But, as far as I can tell from the code, BIND 9 uses
> the db-XXXXX temp-filename format, and BIND 8 doesn't (at least, I
> checked through version 8.4.1; I don't have any versions later than that
> since BIND 8 has been retired). So why would the temp files claim to be
> from BIND 8?
>
> It's almost as if you were unintentionally running BIND 8 *and* BIND 9
> at the same time, with the same directory and same zone files. That's
> bad news, especially since BIND 9 keeps journal files and if the main
> zone file gets out of sync with the journal, BIND gets quite confused.
>
> But that's just speculation. Error messages from the logs would probably
> give you the best lead on solving this problem.
>
>
>         - Kevin
>
> mark evans wrote:
> > i upgraded our name servers from 8.4.4 to 9.4.1.  The master seems to
> run
> > fine on 9.4.1.  When i run the slave 9.4.1, it seems the zones aren't
> being
> > trasfered properly.  Then after a while the zones begin to expire, and
> > odvious with out the zone transfer, problems start to arise.
> > When the master is run at 9.4.1 and slave at 8.4.4 everything seems to
> work
> > fine.
> > While poking around the slave i notice a set files like this:
> > db-RJ2qRqDS
> > db-SzOb6MvH
> > db-T0qBsCoV
> > db-Uu5fZE7v
> > db-WVHIEYuZ
> > db-Wwt6a4qU
> > db-YTjS9eK5
> > db-gdO2n3LH
> > db-kBvivlyx
> > db-nUkGm2hW
> > db-qH68dJ8J
> >
> > the contents of one of the files is listed below:
> >
> > ;; BIND version named 8.4.4 Thu Jun 16 15:21:48 CDT 2005
> > ; BIND version root at pop2.bayou.com
> :/usr/ports/dns/bind84/work/src/bin/named
> > ; zone 'crusecypress.com'   first transfer
> > ; from [209.209.192.10].53:53 (local [209.209.192.20].51898) using AXFR
> at
> > Mon Oct 22 13:10:21 2007
> > ; NOT TSIG verified
> > $ORIGIN com.
> > crusecypress    7200    IN      SOA     ns1.bayou.com.
> root.ns1.bayou.com. (
> >                 2002061921 3600 900 3600000 600 )
> >         7200    IN      NS      ns1.bayou.com.
> >         7200    IN      NS      ns2.bayou.com.
> >         7200    IN      A       209.209.192.58
> >         7200    IN      MX      5 pop.bayou.com.
> > $ORIGIN crusecypress.com.
> > ftp     7200    IN      A       209.209.192.10
> > mail    7200    IN      CNAME   pop.bayou.com.
> > smtp    7200    IN      CNAME   smtp.bayou.com.
> > www     7200    IN      A       209.209.192.58 Thu Jun 16 15:21:48 CDT
> 2005
> > ; BIND version root at pop2.bayou.com
> :/usr/ports/dns/bind84/work/src/bin/named
> > ; zone 'crusecypress.com'   first transfer
> > ; from [209.209.192.10].53:53 (local [209.209.192.20].51898) using AXFR
> at
> > Mon Oct 22 13:10:21 2007
> > ; NOT TSIG verified
> > $ORIGIN com.
> > crusecypress    7200    IN      SOA     ns1.bayou.com.
> root.ns1.bayou.com. (
> >                 2002061921 3600 900 3600000 600 )
> >         7200    IN      NS      ns1.bayou.com.
> >         7200    IN      NS      ns2.bayou.com.
> >         7200    IN      A       209.209.192.58
> >         7200    IN      MX      5 pop.bayou.com.
> > $ORIGIN crusecypress.com.
> > ftp     7200    IN      A       209.209.192.10
> > mail    7200    IN      CNAME   pop.bayou.com.
> > smtp    7200    IN      CNAME   smtp.bayou.com.
> > www     7200    IN      A       209.209.192.58
> >
> >
> > The time and dates on the files seem to coincide when 9.4.1 was running
> on
> > both master and slave. do you guys know what these file are and why it
> would
> > be creating the files with these names?  Thus far i have been unable to
> find
> > any info about them on google. One thing that jumps out as a issue. is
> the
> > file at the top references "BIND version named 8.4.4."  This is a shot
> in
> > the dark, but Is it possible the bind 9.4.1 on the master is using a
> > transfer method for 8.4.4?
> >
> > Thanks
> > Mark
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>




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