Hello all,

I am having a problem with my slave dns server ... it is not updating the zone files form my master DNS server. Does anybody know what my problem may be??

The Master works well on its own ... it responds to nslookups on valid hosts ... but using nslookup on the slave, for the same host, will fail.

I don't think its a huge error, it may be a small fix ... but I don't know what it may be, nor how to fix it.

Here its probably better if I clarify with some parameters mapped out ........ as well as the test I use to know somethings wrong (read below)

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Master 172.1.5.5
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DNS State = Started!!
DNS Forwarder ip = 192.168.XX.X;
DNS Mode = Master
DNS Nameserver ip = 172.1.5.5
DNS Network = 172.1.0.0
DNS Netmask = 255.255.0.0
Domain Name = p.org
DNS Slave = 172.1.1.1

testperson@itsa255 ~ $ nslookup nsName.p.org
Server: 172.1.5.5
Address: 172.1.5.5#53

Name: nsName.p.org
Address: 172.1.55.55



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Slave 172.1.1.1:
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DNS State = Started!!
DNS ForwarderList = 192.168.XX.X;
DNS Mode = slave
DNS Nameserver ip = 172.1.1.1
DNS Network = 172.1.0.0
DNS Netmask = 255.255.0.0
DNS DomainName = itsadomain.org
DN[/b]S Master = 172.1.5.5

testperson@itsadomain ~ $ nslookup nsName.p.org
Server: 172.1.1.1
Address: 172.1.5.5#53

** server can't find NsName.p.org: NXDOMAIN

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When I do the nslookup on the slave, it should still see the 172.1.55.55 address I assigned to my fake nsName host I added to the Master DNS, but it of course does not, even though my master does see it.

Thanks for your time

Hey again,

Additional here are some of the Master and Slave Log Files;

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Slave DNS Log
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12-Sep-2006 13:26:52.181 general: info: shutting down
12-Sep-2006 13:26:52.181 general: notice: stopping command channel on 127.0.0.1#953
12-Sep-2006 13:26:52.183 network: info: no longer listening on 127.0.0.1#53
12-Sep-2006 13:26:52.183 network: info: no longer listening on 172.1.1.1#53
12-Sep-2006 13:26:52.189 general: notice: exiting
12-Sep-2006 13:27:06.485 general: info: zone 0.0.127.in-addr.arpa/IN: loaded serial 2005010100
12-Sep-2006 13:27:06.489 general: info: zone 1.172.in-addr.arpa/IN: loaded serial 2006091105
12-Sep-2006 13:27:06.493 general: info: zone localhost/IN: loaded serial 2005010100
12-Sep-2006 13:27:06.494 general: notice: running
12-Sep-2006 13:27:06.502 general: info: zone itsadomain.org/IN: refresh: non-authoritative answer from master 172.1.5.5#53 (source 0.0.0.0#0)
12-Sep-2006 13:28:05.500 general: info: zone itsadomain.org/IN: refresh: non-authoritative answer from master 172.1.5.5#53 (source 0.0.0.0#0)
12-Sep-2006 13:29:38.501 general: info: zone itsadomain.org/IN: refresh: non-authoritative answer from master 172.1.5.5#53 (source 0.0.0.0#0)
12-Sep-2006 13:32:43.505 general: info: zone itsadomain.org/IN: refresh: non-authoritative answer from master 172.1.5.5#53 (source 0.0.0.0#0)


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Master DNS Log
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12-Sep-2006 13:22:47.472 xfer-out: info: client 172.1.1.1#2040: transfer of '1.172.in-addr.arpa/IN': AXFR-style IXFR started
12-Sep-2006 13:22:47.473 xfer-out: info: client 172.1.1.1#2040: transfer of '1.172.in-addr.arpa/IN': AXFR-style IXFR ended
12-Sep-2006 13:48:15.619 general: info: shutting down
12-Sep-2006 13:48:15.620 general: notice: stopping command channel on 127.0.0.1#953
12-Sep-2006 13:48:15.621 network: info: no longer listening on 127.0.0.1#53
12-Sep-2006 13:48:15.622 network: info: no longer listening on 172.1.5.5#53
12-Sep-2006 13:48:15.627 general: notice: exiting
12-Sep-2006 13:48:31.654 general: info: zone 0.0.127.in-addr.arpa/IN: loaded serial 2005010100
12-Sep-2006 13:48:31.658 general: info: zone 1.172.in-addr.arpa/IN: loaded serial 2006091105
12-Sep-2006 13:48:31.661 general: info: zone localhost/IN: loaded serial 2005010100
12-Sep-2006 13:48:31.666 general: info: zone p.org/IN: loaded serial 2006091108
12-Sep-2006 13:48:31.667 general: notice: running
12-Sep-2006 13:48:31.667 notify: info: zone p.org/IN: sending notifies (serial 2006091108)


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Hope someone is an excellent debugger
Thanks and Take Care

So these are the zones the master is loading...
...but yet it looks like the slave is requesting a zone be transfered from the master by the name of itsadomain.com. You loaded p.org on the master, not itsadomain.org, so the master is replying that its not authoritative (which is correct).