[afnog] DNS zone transfer

[Antonio Godinho]

Strangely enough it seems to give back the right info when running this dig 
command but when requested from outside it returns an error. could it be 
something else?

Cheers,



On Thu, 11 Aug 2005 09:14:53 +0100, Brian Candler wrote
> On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 08:57:07AM +0200, Mark Tinka wrote:
> > > test      NS ns
> > >          NS ns2
> > >          NS ns3.other.com.
> > >
> > > Anyone has had such a problem?
> > 
> > I haven't had experience with BIND-4, but from experience 
> > with BIND-8 and 9, this doesn't look like a problem. If 
> > the zone name is "foo.bar", then incomplete resource 
> > records in the zone db file will automatically have the 
> > zone name (foo.bar, in this case) suffixed to make the 
> > FQDN.
> > 
> > Of course, ns3.other.com doesn't belong to the foo.bar 
> > domain, so it'll need to have its name in the FQDN 
> > fashion.
> > 
> > I have this same setup for several zones I host, and it's 
> > working. 
> > 
> > Despite this, does this zone work?
> 
> To check: on the slave server, type
> 
> $ dig @localhost foo.bar. axfr
> 
> having ensured that 127.0.0.1 is in 'allow_transfer' in named.conf
> This will show you the contents of the zone as served out by the nameserver.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Brian.


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Antonio Godinho
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