Slave DNS Server

[Dan Righter]

Thanks, I narrowed the problem down to a missing folder on the slave server.
Core 2 seems a bit different compared to the older versions of Red Hat.

--Dan

----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Howarth" <paul at city-fan.org>
To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2004 10:21 AM
Subject: Re: Slave DNS Server


> Dan Righter wrote:
> > This is probably basic, but can you clue me in on what the rndc key is
for
> > and how to check if it is working?
>
> rndc is a tool for runtime control of the nameserver. /etc/rndc.key is the
> file containing a security key to ensure that only the right people can
use
> it. The bind rpm post-install script should create this file for you, and
your
> main named.conf file should include it like this:
>
> include "/etc/rndc.key";
>
> It is, however, nothing to do with slave servers.
>
> The tool you need to diagnose this problem is "dig", which is part of the
> "bind-utils" package.
>
> On your slave server, run "dig @master-server-ip example.com axfr"
>
> This should output a list of the zone example.com. If it doesn't, the
reason
> is that the master is not configured to allow transfers to the slave.
>
> If you get a connection failure then you may have firewall problems.
>
> If the transfer works, the problem lies with the slave server
configuration.
>
> That should narrow the problem down a bit.
>
> Paul.
>
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