RE: [cobalt-users] Secondary Name Server not authoritative? (2nd Attempt)

["Chris Demain" <cdemain@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Look in /etc/named.conf for allow-update:

zone "example.com" {
	type master;
	file "relative/path/to/named.example.com";
	allow-update {127.0.0.1; ip.of.ns2.here;};
	allow-transfer {dns1.ip.address; dns2.ip.address;}
};



Your record is also malformed.
CNAME must point to a host with an A record.


Here's how I make my zone files:

$TTL 3600
$ORIGIN com.
example IN SOA ns1.example.com. dnsadmin.example.com. (2001091904 10800 3600
6040800 86400 )

	IN	NS	ns1.example.com.
	IN	NS	ns2.example.com.
	IN	MX	mail.example.com.
	IN	A	192.168.1.1

$ORIGIN example.com.
ns1	IN	A	192.168.1.2
ns2	IN	A	192.168.1.3
mail	IN	A	192.168.1.4
www	IN	CNAME	example.com.

HTH
> > I have a raq3 as a primary name server and another box (RedHat
> > 7.1) as the secondary name server. There are about 10 domain
> > records on the raq but the RedHat keeps giving me error messages
> > for 2 of the domains:
> >
> > named[643]: notify failed: not authoritative for notify zone (REFUSED)
> >
> > I looked at the SOA records on the raq3 and it seems that it does
> > not list the secondary name server but the other 8 domains list
> > the secondary name server. Here is one of the domains which I'm
> > having a problem with:
> >
> > wppi.biz. IN SOA dns1.wppi.net. admin.dns1.wppi.net. (
> >         2001112820
> >         10800
> >         3600
> >         604800
> >         86400
> >         )
> > wppi.biz.       IN      NS      dns1.wppi.net.
> > www     in      cname   www.wppi.com.
> >
> > Can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong and how I can get the
> > secondary name server to be authoritative? I prefer to do this
> > thru the admin web interface instead of adding it manually at a
> > command line.
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > SW