[CentOS] DNS help: "unexpected rcode (SERVFAIL)"??

[eric at austinconventioncenter.com]

> Feizhou wrote:
>> Ajay Sharma wrote:
>>> Recently I'm getting these errors on my slave when adding new domains:
>>>
>>> Sep 26 13:48:27 hosting named[1668]: zone wholesaletvtime.com/IN:
>>> refresh: unexpected rcode (SERVFAIL) from master 207.218.174.4#53
>>>
>>> The master/slave transfers work for the other 1000+ domains that I
>>> have,
>>> just not the handful of new ones that I just added after the CentOS 4.3
>>> -> 4.4 upgrade.
>>>
>>> I regenerated the rndc.conf file and added the control stuff to the
>>> /etc/named.conf file so 'rndc status' works on both machines.
>>>
>>> Does anyone have any ideas?
>>
>> What do the logs on ns1 say regarding ns2's transfer request? Is ns3
>> also a slave?
>
> ns2 and ns3 are both on the same machine.  ns3 is essentially "phased
> out".
>
> going through my logs I'm noticing that the transfers aren't happening
> for any domain so this is a larger problem...
>
> Can someone explain to me why a centos 4.3 to 4.4 upgrade would do this?
>
> --Ajay
>
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> Satyajot (Ajay) Sharma
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Is is due to the new bind package. have you restarted named since making
the rndc changes?  also do an rndc reload  "whatever".com on the slaves