A Zone Transfer Question

[David Li]

Hi John,

Nothing in the /var/log/messages indicates transfer problems. In fact
I don't think the transfer ever started by itself for some reason
until I manually used "dig" to initiate.

David

On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 9:00 AM, John W. Blue <john.blue at rrcic.com> wrote:
> Hello David,
>
> You can get started by checking your log files to see if named is
> complaining about anything it might not like that is preventing the
> transfer.
>
> John
>
> Sent from Nine
>
> From: David Li <dlipubkey at gmail.com>
> Sent: Feb 19, 2016 10:46 AM
> To: BIND Users
> Subject: A Zone Transfer Question
>
> This is my first time to try master slave configuration. Here is a
>     brief description:
>
>     I have two Centos 7.1 VMs - each is configured for a zone. VM1 is the
>     master for zone1 and slave for zone2. VM2 is master for zone2 and
>     slave for zone1. Both zones uses DNS Dynamic Update from DHCP
> servers on the same VM
>     to update the A records in their zone files. No DNSSEC configured.
>
>
>     To start, everything seems to be working fine. I have one host in each
>     zone and they can resolve each other fine.
>
>     Now I add a new host to zone1 and its sequence number has been bumped
>     up. I read that when the zone1 file changes, it will automatically
>     notify its slave zone (ie. zone2) to start a zone transfer after 15
>     min. This never happened. Then I restarted named on VM2 and hoped it
>     would pull the new zone1 file. This didn't happened either.
>     Eventually I have to either restart the VM2 or use dig to start the
>     zone transfer.
>
>     Can anyone spot anything obviously wrong here? Do I need to post my
>     zone file and named.conf?
>
>
>     Thanks.
>
>     David
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