What causes 'zone transfer setup failed' ?

[Ben Croswell]

A common issue is the secondary not being allowed to query the master for
the SOA of the zone. Ensure the master has an allow-query that includes the
secondary.
On Jan 25, 2013 6:06 AM, "Jan-Piet Mens" <jpmens.dns at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm seeing quite a number of messages like
>
>         xfer-out: debug 3: client 192.168.1.2#54688 (example.com): zone
> transfer setup failed
>
> BIND 9.9.2P1 here, configured with:
>
>         request-ixfr no;
>         transfer-format many-answers;
>         transfers-in 100;
>         transfers-per-ns 100;
>         max-transfer-time-in 60;
>
> BIND has a lot of zones to transfer; does this have something to do with
> too many TCP connections?
>
> FWIW, BIND is running on Centos 6.3 in an OpenVZ container.
>
> Regards,
>
>         -JP
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