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BIND transfer garbled

I'm in the process of setting up a new BIND server as a secondary, in order to replace an antiquated one.

Both master and slave are running BIND 9.9.2

Transfers are occurring - sorta. They're coming through garbled. What should be coming through looking like:

Code:

$ORIGIN AfricaBound.org.

$ttl 38400

Africabound.org.        IN        SOA        ns1.sustainablesources.com. hostmaster.sustainablesources.com. (

                        1354438513

                        10800

                        3600

                        604800

                        38400 )

Africabound.org.        IN        NS        ns1.sustainablesources.com.

Africabound.org.        IN        NS        ns2.sustainablesources.com.

Africabound.org.        IN        NS        ns3.sustainablesources.com.

is instead coming through as:

Code:

+–AfricaboundorgÍî¶g–Africaboundorgns1sustainablesourcescomns2sustainablesourcescomns3sustainablesourcescomG–wwwAfricaboundorgns1sustainablesourcescom

I've seen this before on transfers out of the old BIND server (which was previously the master), but I figured it was just a problem specific to that setup.

Any ideas as to what's causing this and how to fix it? Thanks!

Hi,

Could be a network problem, like a broken router, switch, firewall or something like that.
What happens if you're doing the transfer manually for both udp/tcp?

Code:

dig -t axfr AfricaBound.org @x.x.x.x +notcp

dig -t axfr AfricaBound.org @x.x.x.x +tcp

where x.x.x.x is the master's IP

Quote:

Originally Posted by bathory (Post 4841580)

What happens if you're doing the transfer manually for both udp/tcp?

Looks normal for both.

Aha. For bind 9.9.0 the slave zones are stored in raw format (see towards the end here)
If you want to see the zone in readable form you can run:

Code:

named-compilezone -j -f raw -o zone.txt AfricaBound.org /path/to/slave/zonefile

Regards

Quote:

Originally Posted by bathory (Post 4841624)

Aha. For bind 9.9.0 the slave zones are stored in raw format (see towards the end here)
If you want to see the zone in readable form you can run:

Code:

named-compilezone -j -f raw -o zone.txt AfricaBound.org /path/to/slave/zonefile

Regards

Wow. Thanks for that. How very annoying - at least until I get used to it.

Unfortunately, running that code (with the correct path, of course) gives me "not loaded due to errors." in all the variations I've tried. But at least that gives me a jumping off point.

Where did you get the code above? Perhaps there's some tweaking I can do to adjust it so I can read it as a human.

Quote:

Originally Posted by bathory (Post 4841624)

Aha. For bind 9.9.0 the slave zones are stored in raw format (see towards the end here)
If you want to see the zone in readable form you can run:

Code:

named-compilezone -j -f raw -o zone.txt AfricaBound.org /path/to/slave/zonefile

Regards

If I use:

Code:

$ named-checkzone -d -f text -o zone.txt africabound.org /var/named/hosts/slave/

I get:

l

Code:

oading "africabound.org" from "/var/named/hosts/slave/" class "IN"

dns_master_load: /var/named/hosts/slave/:1: isc_lex_gettoken() failed: I/O error

dns_master_load: /var/named/hosts/slave/:1: I/O error

zone africabound.org/IN: loading from master file /var/named/hosts/slave/ failed: I/O error

zone africabound.org/IN: not loaded due to errors.

But it shouldn't be loading from a master file, should it?

Quote:

If I use:

$ named-checkzone -d -f text -o zone.txt africabound.org /var/named/hosts/slave/

I get:

oading "africabound.org" from "/var/named/hosts/slave/" class "IN"
dns_master_load: /var/named/hosts/slave/:1: isc_lex_gettoken() failed: I/O error
dns_master_load: /var/named/hosts/slave/:1: I/O error
zone africabound.org/IN: loading from master file /var/named/hosts/slave/ failed: I/O error
zone africabound.org/IN: not loaded due to errors.

But it shouldn't be loading from a master file, should it?

You need to use "-f raw" because the zone file is in raw format. The resulting zone.txt will be in the classic txt format (the default for previous versions of bind). For more details see the named-compilezone manpage.

Regards