[Sunhelp] anybody know bind8?

[Bill Bradford]

On Fri, Mar 03, 2000 at 10:23:05PM -0800, Gregory Leblanc wrote:
> I've been running bind8 for a while now as the primary on my local net, but
> I need to get it set up as a secondary for the office today (well, soon,
> hopefully).  I've got it running out of /var/named, and I'm storing zone
> specific files in /var/named/pz.  In /etc/named.conf, I've got a section
> that reads as follows:
> zone "cu-portland.edu" {
> 	type slave;
> 	file "pz/cu-portland.edu";
> 	masters { real.dns.server.ip; };
> };
> When I start named, it creates a file with a name like cu-portland.edu.stuff
> in /var/named/pz, with size 0, but that goes away as soon as the "transfer"
> is done.  Any ideas what the deal is?  Thanks,
> 	Greg

Are you allowing zone transfers from real.dns.server.ip to the secondary?
Try doing a nslookup on the secondary, "server real.dns.server.ip", and
then "ls cu-portland.edu" - see if it lets you list the zone.  If not, you
need to allow zone transfers from the master nameserver to the secondary.
I can help you with this; email me privately off-list.

Bill

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