I just upgraded to fedora doing a clean install and was running dns on this box using redhat 7.3. I setup the dns and put in all the zones into the /etc/named.conf file exactly how I had it on the 7.3 install. It looks like this:

zone "domain.com" {
type slave;
file "domain.com";
masters{
1.2.3.4;
};
allow-transfer { 1.2.3.4; };
};

and my master looks like this:

zone "domain.com"{
type master;
file "domain.com";
notify yes;
allow-transfer{
9.8.7.6;
};
};


Where 9.8.7.6 is the slave DNS and 1.2.3.4 is the master dns. When I start my dns on the slave it does not get all the zones and put them in /var/named/. I only get an error:

named[20742]: transfer of 'domain.com' from 1.2.3.4#53: failed while receiving responses: REFUSED

I do not have a firewall running and I can telnet into port 53 on both boxes just fine.

Can someone please help?

Thanks in advance...

Hello tysonh04,

It has been about 3 months since you posted your question. You may have figured it like I did, or got assistance from another source. I did not see any replies, and decided to send you one to you.

In Fedora, the Bind DNS configuration and data (zone) files are in the ~named/chroot directory. The /etc/sysconfig/named systeem configuration script defines the ROOTDIR variable to /var/named/chroot. The /etc/rc.d/init.d/named run control script uses that variable to determine if it should run the named daemon with the -t '$ROOTDIR" option.

I you have to do is copy the named.conf files to the ~named/chroot/etc directory, and the zone files to the ~named/chroot/var directory.

I know this is 3 months late, but I hope this helps you or anyone else who uses this site.

Regadrs,
Gabe