erros on slave "server refresh: unexpected rcode (NXDOMAIN)"

[Barry Margolin]

In article <mailman.1432.1343097065.63724.bind-users at lists.isc.org>,
 Gregory Machin <gdm at linuxpro.co.za> wrote:

> Hi.
> I have a bind 9 primary server and a bind 9 secondary server, I added
> a new sub domain to the primary and as a slave zone on the secondary.
> i have obviously missed something. What does :
> 
> named[13931]: zone domain.example.com/IN: refresh: unexpected rcode
> (NXDOMAIN) from master 209.234.97.14#53 (source 0.0.0.0#0)
> mean ??
> 
> As far as the primary server logs goes there is nothing that indicates
> an issue .
> 
> Thanks

This looks like it means that when the slave performs the SOA query for 
domain.example.com, the master replies with an NXDOMAIN error, 
indicating that the name domain.example.com doesn't exist. I think you 
have a typo in one of your named.conf files, so the zone names aren't 
matching.

-- 
Barry Margolin
Arlington, MA