[CentOS] New CentOS DNS Server woes

Stephen John Smoogen smooge at gmail.com
Mon Aug 6 00:32:47 UTC 2007


On 8/5/07, Ray Leventhal <centos at swhi.net> wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I've put my new DNS server in place, told the primary that this IP would
> be pulling zones and restarted BIND on the primary.
>
> I configured my named.conf file to pull zones from the primary, started
> BIND on the new box.   Here's where I get confused
>
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++
> [root at sunspot etc]# /etc/init.d/named status
> number of zones: 169
> debug level: 0
> xfers running: 0
> xfers deferred: 0
> soa queries in progress: 0
> query logging is OFF
> recursive clients: 0/1000
> tcp clients: 0/100
> server is up and running
> +++++++++++++++++++++++
>
> So the new BIND sees the conf file and recognizes that there are 169
> zones (test group) to pull.
>
> nothing comes over.  I tailed the /var/log/messages and I see about 169
> <g> of these:
>
> Aug  5 14:10:08 sunspot named[5263]: dumping master file:
> /var/named/chroot/var/named/slaves/tmp-sTsIWElBLR: open: file not found
>

Can you transfer a file over from the server correctly or is the
server denying it to the slaves. what does 'dig @<server-ip-address>
<name-of-zone> axfr' give you on the slave server? Remember to change
out the name-of-zone etc with real data fro your server.



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Stephen J Smoogen. -- CSIRT/Linux System Administrator
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