dumping master file: tmp-xxx: open: permission denied

[Mark Andrews]

In message <8919443E-8F62-48CD-8DA4-9C9632FC5D69 at kreme.com>, LuKreme writes:
> OK, I am getting this error "dumping master file: tmp-xxx: open:
> permission denied", occasionally, on both my slave DNS servers and I
> can't seem to fix it.
>
> The dns slave files are being written into /var/named/etc/namedb/slave
> which is owned by bind
>
> 8 drwxr-xr-x  2 bind  wheel  1024 Jan 13 19:46 /var/named/etc/namedb/slave
>
> DNS changes are getting propagated to both servers from the master, so I
> don't know where the permission denied is coming from. Where is this
> tmp file being (attempted to be) written?

It's trying to write the the working directory which I doubt is
/var/named/etc/namedb/slave.  I suspect you have a bad "file"
directive.

> And why are the slave servers "dumping master file" in the first place?

So the slave can start up and serve the zone content when the master
server is down.

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