BIND master , Windows 2008 stub zone not transferring

Mike Hoskins (michoski) michoski at cisco.com
Thu Feb 21 18:25:17 UTC 2013


-----Original Message-----

From: Sowmya Manjanatha <sowmyam1 at gmail.com>
Date: Thursday, February 21, 2013 1:11 PM
To: "bind-users at lists.isc.org" <bind-users at lists.isc.org>
Subject: Re: BIND master , Windows 2008 stub zone not transferring

>Well, I have a stub zone on Windows 2008 server set-up to use two
>different BIND server as its list of IPs to use as masters.  In the DNS
>manager on Windows, you can always right click on the zone and select
>"Transfer zone from Master".  With Wireshark on Windows,
> I have found that this triggers a DNS request for the given zone name.
>You may be right that it may very well not be a zone transfer and just a
>regular query/response.  However, I was just going by the terminology on
>the zone from Windows.

Yes, it is a request for the NS RRset I presume...as Mark kindly pointed
out, stub zones do not "transfer" by definition:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc771898.aspx

>Another problem I am also having is that Windows 2008 server doesn't seem
>to pick up the latest SOA i.e. it does not seem to honour the serial
>number within the SOA.  It appears it just picks up the 1st response it
>gets.  So, I find that sometimes the records
> are stale.  I am trying to understand if there is any configuration in
>BIND that can help provide the right response the 2008 server prefers.

Are you simply seeing the effects of TTL and caching on the Windows side?




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