RE: [cobalt-users] DNS Transfer

["Andy Brown" <andy.brown@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> For some reason my secondary DNS (Raq 4) is not transferring 
> zonefiles from my primary DNS which is Windows 2000.  I'm not 
> sure the reasoning behind it, or if there is a way to 
> manually do zone transfers.  Help is always appreciated.
> 


Hi,
I suspect you've just applied the latest DNS patch, that runs BIND as
the user named and not as root as before???

Have a look in /var/log/messages when its supposed to be zone
transferring and you'll probably find:

Mar 26 15:16:18 iv8proxy named-xfer[4997]: can't make tmpfile
(sec.10.0.0.0.xeUCCl): Permission denied 

(or similar)

Its because the directory /etc/named/ is still owned by root and not by
named. SSH/Telnet in and do:

chown -R named /etc/named/

Restart named (/etc/rc.d/init.d/named restart)

And then tail your logs again and see if the zone xfer takes place

Regards,

Andy
andy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://ineedlinux.info/