I'm at my wit's end on this. Everything looks like it should work fine. I've got Bind9 installed on a dedicated server (primary) and a slave set up here at home. Both servers work fine on their own, but the slave server refuses to downloaded the zone data from my primary server. Highly doubt it's a firewall issue, as the server here at home is able to resolve queries from the Internet. I've examined /var/log/messages. I'm not sure exactly what I should be looking for, but what I see makes it look like the zone data is indeed being transferred.
The results upon starting the server:
Code:
Aug 25 19:54:14 greyhavens named[32155]: starting BIND 9.3.0 -u named -t /chroot/named -c /etc/named.conf
Aug 25 19:54:14 greyhavens named[32155]: loading configuration from '/etc/named.conf'
Aug 25 19:54:14 greyhavens named[32155]: no IPv6 interfaces found
Aug 25 19:54:14 greyhavens named[32155]: listening on IPv4 interface lo, 127.0.0.1#53
Aug 25 19:54:14 greyhavens named[32155]: listening on IPv4 interface eth0, 192.168.15.4#53
Aug 25 19:54:14 greyhavens named[32155]: listening on IPv4 interface eth1, 192.168.1.102#53
Aug 25 19:54:14 greyhavens named[32155]: command channel listening on 127.0.0.1#953
Aug 25 19:54:14 greyhavens named[32155]: zone 0.0.127.in-addr.arpa/IN: loaded serial 2005082401
Aug 25 19:54:14 greyhavens named[32155]: running
Aug 25 19:54:14 greyhavens named[32155]: zone 0.0.127.in-addr.arpa/IN: sending notifies (serial 2005082401)
Aug 25 19:54:16 greyhavens named[32155]: zone xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx.in-addr.arpa/IN: Transfer started.
Aug 25 19:54:16 greyhavens named[32155]: zone xxxxx.com/IN: Transfer started.
Aug 25 19:54:16 greyhavens named[32155]: zone xxxxx.com/IN: zone transfer deferred due to quota
Aug 25 19:54:17 greyhavens named[32155]: transfer of '114.60.69.in-addr.arpa/IN' from xxx.xxx.xxx#53: connected using 192.168.15.4#1634
Aug 25 19:54:17 greyhavens named[32155]: transfer of 'xxxxx.com/IN' from xxx.xxx.xxx#53: connected using 192.168.15.4#1635
Aug 25 19:54:17 greyhavens named[32155]: zone xxxxx.com/IN: Transfer started.
Aug 25 19:54:17 greyhavens named[32155]: transfer of 'xxx.xx.in-addr.arpa/IN' from xxx.xxx.xxx#53: end of transfer
Aug 25 19:54:17 greyhavens named[32155]: transfer of 'xxxxx.com/IN' from xxx.xxx.xxx#53: end of transfer
Aug 25 19:54:18 greyhavens named[32155]: transfer of 'xxxxx.com/IN' from xxx.xxx.xxx#53: connected using 192.168.15.4#1636
Aug 25 19:54:19 greyhavens named[32155]: transfer of 'xxxxx.com/IN' from xxx.xxx.xxx#53: end of transfer
This is the first time the 'zone transfer deferred due to quota' has showed up, so I doubt it has any relevance. But everything else is the same. Says Transfer started, transfer of xxxx.xxx, and then end of transfer. Does that look right?