slave transfer troubleshooting issue

[Jakob Bohm]

On Tue, 06 Oct 2009 12:20:13 -0400, Frank Pikelner <frank.pikelner at netcraftcommunications.com> wrote:
> I have two Debian servers running BIND 9.5.1-p3 (master and slave). I
> have taken the configs from a production environment that work, just
> changed IP addresses. I am having problems sorting out why the slave
> fails to tranfer files from the master. The /var/log/bind/named.log on
> the master shows that all relevant zones have been loaded. When I check
> the /var/log/bind/named.log file the slave is only loading the defaults:
> 
> 06-Oct-2009 12:09:45.358 general: info: zone 0.in-addr.arpa/IN/internal:
> loaded serial 1
> 06-Oct-2009 12:09:45.358 general: info: zone
> 127.in-addr.arpa/IN/internal: loaded serial 1
> 06-Oct-2009 12:09:45.358 general: info: zone
> 255.in-addr.arpa/IN/internal: loaded serial 1
> 06-Oct-2009 12:09:45.362 general: info: zone localhost/IN/internal:
> loaded serial 2
> 06-Oct-2009 12:09:45.362 general: info: zone bind/CH/external-chaos:
> loaded serial 1
> 06-Oct-2009 12:09:45.366 general: notice: running
> 
> 
> My named.conf file has an include statement for named.conf.local. I've
> checked permissions, files and all seems to be okay. I must be missing
> something simple. What is the best way to debug why the slave does not
> seem to attempt a transfer of the additional zones from the master?
> 
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> Frank
> 
> 

The Debian packaged bind differs from the standard bind in one important
detail, which may be the cause of your problems:

Debian bind looks for named.conf and related files in /etc/bind/named.conf,
standard bind looks in /etc/named.conf.

(Sorry for not replying earlier, I don't read this list every day.)


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