Zone transfer failing

[Scott Haneda]

On Jun 23, 2009, at 11:57 PM, Chris Buxton wrote:

> On Jun 23, 2009, at 3:16 PM, Scott Haneda wrote:
>> Good observation.  This is a long standing issue that I assumed was  
>> solved.  Named on OS X will go deaf on port 53 tcp for some  
>> reason.  I just kicked it, and now I can tcp dig it.
>>
>> $dig +tcp sugardimplesdesigns.com SOA @ns1.hostwizard.com +short
>> ns1.hostwizard.com. scott.hostwizard.com. 2009062206 28800 7200  
>> 2419200 3600
>>
>> I now the men and mice guys are familiar with this, if you guys are  
>> reading, have you ever pinned this down, or found a solution to it?
>
> No, we have not. However, it appears to be related to the port being  
> idle for some time. Servers that use their TCP port more frequently,  
> usually due to having lots of zone updates that need to be  
> replicated to slaves, don't appear to be affected. You might try  
> creating a cron job that digs against the TCP port every 5 minutes  
> to try to keep the port "active" and prevent it from gong deaf.
>
> I could be wrong, but I seem to recall that we've seen this on other  
> operating systems as well, although the lion's share of reports have  
> been with Mac OS X.


In your estimation, a named/BIND bug, or OS level bug?  How would one  
go about finding out, and working it out, so we can solve this? I can  
certainly and very easily shove a launchd job in to run every 5  
minutes, and do not even consider it much of a kludge, but would like  
to solve it for others, as it is a bear to track down.

Myself, knowing about it, and having hit my head against it, failed to  
remember it again.
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