On Tue, 2009-11-03 at 13:34 -0500, James B. Byrne wrote: > > zone "byrnejb.ca" { > type slave; > masters { > 216.185.71.33; > }; > file "/var/named/slaves/byrnejb.ca.hosts"; > }; > > Which is, as far as I can see, identical. > > In any case, the real problem is that neither slave actually > transfers the updated zone file and I cannot figure out why not. I > have verified that the master zone file serial number is greater > than that of the slave zones. > > So, I have two questions: > > 1. Why is the source address 216.185.71.27 when the bind named > listens on 216.185.71.33 and answers queries from the same address. > Admittedly, 216.185.71.33 is a virtual ip hosted on 216.185.71.27 > but we have been doing this for over a decade now and I have never > seen this behaviour before. > > 2. Why are the notifies ignored? Again, we have had this set up for > over a decade and none of these problems until now, and the only > thing that has happened on the dns side of things recently were the > CentOS updates last week. > > I am not a DNS specialist, I set this up several years ago and I am > perplexed as to why it is now giving me these difficulties. Any > help would be gratefully appreciated. ---- why not add the other ip address just in case on the slaves... masters { 216.185.71.33; 216.185.71.27; }; you might also want to specifically add them to allow update... acl HLLmasters { 216.185.71.33; 216.185.71.27; }; allow-update { HLLmasters; }; Craig -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.