Unable to perform zone transfers

[Kevin Darcy]

Elias wrote:
> Hi all,
>  
> I'm having troubles getting a particular zone transferred over to our 
> nameserver but can manually dig for it. After trying a couple of 
> things out, I noticed that it didn't work because they had the parent 
> iskl.edu.my and the subdmain lc.iskl.edu.my in the same zone. I was 
> only able to host the zone after manually splitting the domains up. Is 
> there anything I'm missing here? Thx!
No, what you show below only comprises the contents of the iskl.edu.my 
zone. The child zone lc.iskl.edu.my is delegated via NS records and 
necessary "glue" A records. But you show nothing from the lc.iskl.edu.my 
subdomain that would be considered "beneath the zone cut", e.g. 
www.lc.iskl.edu.my.

                                                                         
                                                                        
- Kevin

P.S. I notice that the 203.106.230.5 nameserver is in violation of the 
RFCs because it has a duplicate A record for tm.lc.iskl.edu.my. This 
implies that it is not running a BIND implementation (or a very old one, 
perhaps). The zone also contains a "chained" alias from ps.iskl.edu.my 
to powerschool.iskl.edu.my. But the specific problem you complained 
about -- parent and child data in the same zone -- is not evident.

P.P.S. Hopefully you didn't expose anything security-sensitive via that 
"encoded" CNAME pointing to google.com.

>  
>  
> #### Config used ####
> zone "iskl.edu.my" {
>         type slave;
>         file "sec/iskl.edu.my.zoneb";
>         masters {
>                   203.106.230.5;
>         };
> };
>  
>  
> ### Manual dig attempt ###
> # dig @203.106.230.5 iskl.edu.my axfr       
>  
> ; <<>> DiG 9.6.0-P1 <<>> @203.106.230.5 iskl.edu.my axfr
> ; (1 server found)
> ;; global options: +cmd
> iskl.edu.my.            3600    IN      SOA     ns.iskl.edu.my. 
> rajinder.iskl.edu.my. 2008071491 7200 1800 1209600 300
> iskl.edu.my.            300     IN      NS      tm.lc.iskl.edu.my.
> iskl.edu.my.            300     IN      NS      ns.iskl.edu.my.
> iskl.edu.my.            300     IN      NS      ns4.tm.net.my.
> iskl.edu.my.            300     IN      MX      10 mail.iskl.edu.my.
> googlecdd3aa272740e68c.iskl.edu.my. 300 IN CNAME google.com.
> help.iskl.edu.my.       300     IN      CNAME   helpdesk.iskl.edu.my.
> helpdesk.iskl.edu.my.   300     IN      CNAME   helpdesk.lc.iskl.edu.my.
> iskl-library.iskl.edu.my. 300   IN      CNAME   
> iskl-library.lc.iskl.edu.my.
> lc.iskl.edu.my.         300     IN      NS      rt.lc.iskl.edu.my.
> lc.iskl.edu.my.         300     IN      NS      tm.lc.iskl.edu.my.
> rt.lc.iskl.edu.my.      300     IN      A       203.142.50.34
> tm.lc.iskl.edu.my.      300     IN      A       203.106.230.4
> tm.lc.iskl.edu.my.      300     IN      A       203.106.230.4
> library.iskl.edu.my.    300     IN      CNAME   iskl-library.iskl.edu.my.
> mail.iskl.edu.my.       300     IN      NS      tm.lc.iskl.edu.my.
> mail.iskl.edu.my.       300     IN      NS      rt.lc.iskl.edu.my.
> tm.lc.iskl.edu.my.      300     IN      A       203.106.230.4
> tm.lc.iskl.edu.my.      300     IN      A       203.106.230.4
> rt.lc.iskl.edu.my.      300     IN      A       203.142.50.34
> my.iskl.edu.my.         300     IN      CNAME   ghs.google.com.
> mycal.iskl.edu.my.      300     IN      CNAME   ghs.google.com.
> mydocs.iskl.edu.my.     300     IN      CNAME   ghs.google.com.
> mymail.iskl.edu.my.     300     IN      CNAME   ghs.google.com.
> mysites.iskl.edu.my.    300     IN      CNAME   ghs.google.com.
> ns.iskl.edu.my.         300     IN      A       203.106.230.5
> pos.iskl.edu.my.        300     IN      A       218.208.74.99
> powerschool.iskl.edu.my. 300    IN      CNAME   
> powerschool.lc.iskl.edu.my.
> ps.iskl.edu.my.         300     IN      CNAME   powerschool.iskl.edu.my.
> ra.iskl.edu.my.         300     IN      CNAME   remoteaccess.iskl.edu.my.
> remoteaccess.iskl.edu.my. 300   IN      A       203.106.230.14
> www.iskl.edu.my <http://www.iskl.edu.my>.        300     IN      
> CNAME   www.lc.iskl.edu.my <http://www.lc.iskl.edu.my>.
> www1.iskl.edu.my.       300     IN      CNAME   www1.lc.iskl.edu.my.
> iskl.edu.my.            3600    IN      SOA     ns.iskl.edu.my. 
> rajinder.iskl.edu.my. 2008071491 7200 1800 1209600 300
> ;; Query time: 22 msec
> ;; SERVER: 203.106.230.5#53(203.106.230.5)
> ;; WHEN: Tue Jul  7 19:06:58 2009
> ;; XFR size: 34 records (messages 34, bytes 1974)
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