[Sunhelp] anybody know bind8?

[Gregory Leblanc]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Bradford [mailto:mrbill at mrbill.net]
> Sent: Saturday, March 04, 2000 8:39 PM
> To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
> Subject: Re: [Sunhelp] anybody know bind8?
> 
> 
> 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.

Thanks everybody, I got it licked.  The other admin decided that we should
run bind for NT, and he didn't bother to set it up properly.  After I found
the logs for bind, I told him to stop smoking crack and fix it, things are
up and running now.  Thanks! 
	Greg