slave not updating or creating ofd zone files

[Computer King]

OK but how do I correct the issue 
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Sten Carlsen <stenc at s-carlsen.dk> wrote:

It has sometimes been seen that the files that are updated are not the
files actually loaded, this could be such a case?

On 29/03/12 10:58, RYAN M. vAN GINNEKEN wrote:
>
>     Hello all i have what is to me a very strange bind 9 master slave
>     transfer issue.
>
>     When i update a zone file on the master the file updates correctly
>     the notifies are sent and every thing seems to work perfectly
>     except it transfers 0 bytes to the slave.  Checking the slave
>     confirms that indeed thier was no transfer and that the slave is
>     still serving the old zone, i have gon as far as to completely
>     delete the zone files from the slave and restart bind to my
>     suprise it puts back all the old files.  What is going on?  Below
>     is an example of one of the files that is not updating correctly
>     there are many and some of file I have updated more recently are
>     not even showing up in the logs of the server.
>
>     On the server Ubuntu 8.04 LTS running BIND 9.4.2-P2.1 chrooted
>     29-Mar-2012 06:03:39.461 general: info: zone
>     jodygamracy.com/IN/external <http://jodygamracy.com/IN/external>:
>     loaded serial 2012031501
>     29-Mar-2012 06:03:39.614 notify: info: zone
>     jodygamracy.com/IN/external <http://jodygamracy.com/IN/external>:
>     sending notifies (serial 2012031501)
>     29-Mar-2012 06:03:41.761 xfer-out: info: client
>     96.51.192.233#33074: view external: transfer of
>     'jodygamracy.com/IN <http://jodygamracy.com/IN>': IXFR ended
>
>     On the slave Ubuntu 10.04 LTS  BIND 9.7.0-P1
>     29-Mar-2012 00:03:41.666 general: info: zone
>     jodygamracy.com/IN/external <http://jodygamracy.com/IN/external>:
>     Transfer started.
>     29-Mar-2012 00:03:41.706 xfer-in: info: transfer of
>     'jodygamracy.com/IN/external <http://jodygamracy.com/IN/external>'
>     from 204.244.122.132#53: connected using 96.51.192.233#33074
>     29-Mar-2012 00:03:41.782 xfer-in: info: transfer of
>     'jodygamracy.com/IN/external <http://jodygamracy.com/IN/external>'
>     from 204.244.122.132#53: Transfer completed: 0 messages, 1
>     records, 0 bytes, 0.076 secs (0 bytes/sec)
>
>     As a side not i have both machines firewalled, but have port 53
>     open on both machines, and have ports set using this in these
>     lines in the named.conf. file
>           query-source address * port 53;
>                 transfer-source * port 53;
>                 notify-source * port 53;
>
>     and see this in the dameon logs
>     /etc/named.conf:9: using specific query-source port suppresses
>     port randomization and can be insecure.
>
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>
> I've tried that had this problem for awhile that is why serial was not
> dated today just picked a random zone file anyways i updated the
> serial with todays date and still get the same behaviour.  Strange but
> the times are messed up i checked the time/date on both machines they
> are very similar what is with the wierd log times?
> .
> 29-Mar-2012 08:44:06.883 notify: info: zone
> jodygamracy.com/IN/external: sending notifies (serial 2012032901)
> 29-Mar-2012 08:44:09.093 xfer-out: info: client 96.51.192.233#43819:
> view external: transfer of 'jodygamracy.com/IN': IXFR ended
>
>
>
> 29-Mar-2012 02:41:45.829 xfer-in: info: transfer of
> 'jodygamracy.com/IN/external' from 204.244.122.132#53: Transfer
> completed: 0 messages, 1 records, 0 bytes, 0.072 secs (0 bytes/sec)
>
> I get lots of these 0 bytes transfers everytime i try to edit a zone
> file now they keep poping up and zones never get updated on the slave
> it just keeps trying and getting 0 bytes
>
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