From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 8 18:00:42 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 254E716A420 for ; Wed, 8 Feb 2006 18:00:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jhall@vandaliamo.net) Received: from trueband.net (trueband.net [216.163.120.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8E17443D49 for ; Wed, 8 Feb 2006 18:00:41 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jhall@vandaliamo.net) Received: (qmail 31300 invoked by uid 1006); 8 Feb 2006 18:00:40 -0000 Received: from jhall@vandaliamo.net by rs0 by uid 1003 with qmail-scanner-1.16 (spamassassin: 3.1.0. Clear:SA:0(-0.8/100.0):. Processed in 3.721392 secs); 08 Feb 2006 18:00:40 -0000 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.8 required=100.0 X-Spam-Level: Received: from unknown (HELO trueband.net) (172.16.0.11) by -v with SMTP; 8 Feb 2006 18:00:34 -0000 Received: (qmail 18629 invoked from network); 8 Feb 2006 18:00:33 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO admintool.trueband.net) (127.0.0.1) by -v with SMTP; 8 Feb 2006 18:00:33 -0000 Received: from 12.170.206.13 (SquirrelMail authenticated user jhall@vandaliamo.net) by admintool.trueband.net with HTTP; Wed, 8 Feb 2006 18:00:33 -0000 (GMT) Message-ID: <1248.12.170.206.13.1139421633.squirrel@admintool.trueband.net> In-Reply-To: <20060208164544.GB24684@tetro.net> References: <4822.12.170.206.13.1139402702.squirrel@admintool.trueband.net> <20060208164544.GB24684@tetro.net> Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2006 18:00:33 -0000 (GMT) From: jhall@vandaliamo.net To: "Tim Utschig" User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal Cc: jhall@vandaliamo.net, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BIND zone transfers X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2006 18:00:42 -0000 > On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 12:45:02PM -0000, jhall@vandaliamo.net wrote: >> Under FreeBSD 4.8 BIND was making zone transfers normally. In my >> network, >> Windows 2000 is the master and bind is the salve. Recently, the server >> was upgraded to FreeBSD 6.0, and suddenly BIND stopped making zone >> transfers, except for the first zone, which is transferred just as it >> should be. Zone transfers are taking place from a W2K server. I am >> seeing this problem with BIND 9.3.2 and BIND 9.3.1 > > Saw this in the BIND FAQ, maybe it applies to your situation: > > > Q: Zone transfers from my BIND 9 master to my Windows 2000 slave fail. > Why? > > A: This may be caused by a bug in the Windows 2000 DNS server where DNS > messages larger than 16K are not handled properly. This can be worked > around by setting the option "transfer-format one-answer;". Also > check whether your zone contains domain names with embedded spaces or > other special characters, like "John\032Doe\213s\032Computer", since > such names have been known to cause Windows 2000 slaves to > incorrectly reject the zone. > > > -- > - Tim Utschig > I did not properly explain the situation. The Windows 2000 server is functioning as a secondary server for the parent organization's DNS, and I am using BIND to download the zones to the local offices, from the W2K server, to help reduce network traffic. Sorry this was not clear the first time. Jay