[cobalt-users] Problem with zone transfer from Qube3...

["Chuck Clanton" <chac@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Can anyone who has zone transfers working on their Qube3 give me some
advice?

I am running the Qube3 rather stock at the moment.  I have the DNS server
working and answering nslookup queries correctly for my domain, aratar.com,
on the Qube3. My ISP is delegating reverses to me. Right now, NIC records
point to a machine in another domain, bosphorus.dimebank.com, that hosts my
Master DNS record.  I am ready to convert bosphorus to a secondary but have
run into a problem.

When we attempt the zone transfer , we get the error message "Query
Refused".  On the admin GUI, I have tried leaving Administration>Network
Services>DNS/Advanced Zone Transfer Access blank (which according to both
Cobalt and Bind documentation, should allow access to anyone), and I have
tried putting in the specific computer or just its domain.  Nothing works.
In my logs, I see an error

messages:Dec 11 14:57:56 ulmo named[666]: unapproved AXFR from
[204.152.188.145]
.2039 for "aratar.com" (not authoritative)

Here is what we get on the other system:

> nslookup
> > Default Server:  bosphorus.dimebank.com
> > Address:  204.152.188.145
> > Aliases:  145.188.152.204.in-addr.arpa
> >
> > > server ulmo.aratar.com
> > Default Server:  ulmo.aratar.com
> > Address:  216.36.65.70
> >
> > > ls aratar.com
> > [ulmo.aratar.com]
> > *** Can't list domain aratar.com: Query refused
> > > ls ulmo.aratar.com
> > [ulmo.aratar.com]
> > *** Can't list domain ulmo.aratar.com: Query refused
>

I get the same error message when I try the nslookup and domain ls on ulmo.
I am baffled.  Do I need to turn on domain transfers somewhere that I havent
noticed?  Can anyone suggest what I should investigate to solve this?