Slave to Win2003 DNS

Jukka Pakkanen jukka.pakkanen at qnet.fi
Sat Oct 31 10:07:13 UTC 2009


Our Bind 9.6.1-P1 Windows servers are slaves to a Windows 2003 DNS 
server, zone "company.local".

For some reason the slaves don't update the zone unless I restart the 
BIND service in the server, and after a while, fail to respond to queries.

Example, after a couple of days since the last restart, the BIND servers 
stops responding to queries to "company.local" (SERVFAIL), at the server 
I can see that the cache file is not updated since the service was 
previously started.  I restart BIND service, and immediately the cache 
file is updated, server again responses to queries etc.

I suspect this is not a problem in the BIND, but in the Windows 2003 
DNS, but any ideas anyway, what to look in the server?  Haven't been 
playing with the Windows DNS a lot...

Jukka



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