the master's local ip is in the resolv.conf, and no i havent created a PTR 
record for the master or the slave.. which i believe needs to happen. on my 
old bind servers, i created a separate zone files for the PTR records. not 
sure if thats the best way to handle it.

slr

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dan Lund" <situationalawareness@gmail.com>
To: "Main PLUG discussion list" <plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
Sent: Saturday, June 23, 2007 10:35 AM
Subject: Re: DNS bind-9.3.3-8


> What's in the requesting systems resolv.conf and also, do you have
> reverse dns for the ips in the dns server?
>
>
> On 6/22/07, slr <sweetgrass@zen2now.com> wrote:
>> i'm having some issues with my new master/slave setup and i cant figure 
>> it
>> out on my own. so i'm hoping someone in PLUG can help me out with this 
>> one.
>>
>> first issue:
>> master is authoritive for the zones listed in my named.conf,.i know the 
>> fix
>> for one of the zones as i had to change the nameserver registration and 
>> then
>> i was able to transfer successfully. but one of the zones is for internal
>> use only and is not a FQDN. so i get
>> "named[13446]: zone ic/IN/view1: refresh: non-authoritative answer from
>> master 192.168.6.55#53 (source 0.0.0.0#0)", in the log everytime the 
>> master
>> tries to transfer.
>>
>> second issue:
>> when i do a dig or use nslookup for a zone i know the master has, it 
>> fails
>> to find any records. but if i set my resolv.conf to use only the master 
>> as
>> its nameserver i can successfully dig the zone i had previously tried to 
>> dig
>> on the master.
>>
>> heres a snip-it of on named.conf on the master:
>>
>> options {
>>         listen-on port 53 { master_local_ip; };
>>         directory "/var/named";
>>         dump-file "/var/named/data/cache_dump.db";
>>         statistics-file "/var/named/data/named_stats.txt";
>>         memstatistics-file "/var/named/data/named_mem_stats.txt";
>>         query-source    port 53;
>>         zone-statistics yes;
>>         notify explicit;
>>         dnssec-enable yes;
>>         allow-query     { slave_local_ip; master_local_ip;
>> company_local_subnet; slave_public_ip; };
>> };
>> logging {
>>         channel query_file {
>>                 file "/var/log/query.log";
>>                 severity info;
>>                 print-severity yes;
>>                 print-time yes;
>>         };
>>         category queries { query_file; };
>> };
>>
>> key "TRANSFER" {
>>         algorithm hmac-md5;
>>         secret "xPNB2+v8jXzRxZDvANDKZg==";
>> };
>>
>> server slave_local_ip {
>>         keys {
>>         TRANSFER;
>>     };
>> };
>> view "view1" {
>>         match-clients{ accepted_client_list; };
>>         recursion yes;
>>         allow-recursion { 192.168.0.0/16; 127.0.0.1/32; };
>>         zone "ic" IN {
>>         type master;
>>         allow-transfer { slave_local_ip; };
>>         also-notify { slave_local_ip; };
>>         file "view1/.ic.dns";
>>         };
>>         zone "furrybuddies.com" IN {
>>         type master;
>>         allow-transfer { slave_local_ip; };
>>         also-notify { slave_local_ip; };
>>         file "view1/furrybuddies.com.dns";
>> };
>> };
>>
>> this mainly deals with the authorative issue. i'll try to work through 
>> this
>> one first and if need be i'll post the config for the zone the master 
>> cant
>> seem to resolve. thanks for any and all help.
>>
>> slr
>
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