Hi all, I decided to find out what my secondary dns knows about my domain after getting my primary DNS configured a few days ago. DiG 9.1.2 <<>> @ns2.granitecanyon.com romualt.dhs.org -t SOA ;; global options: printcmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 44790 ;; flags: qr rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 2 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;romualt.dhs.org. IN SOA ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: dhs.org. 6608 IN NS ns1.dhs.org. dhs.org. 6608 IN NS ns2.dhs.org. ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION: ns1.dhs.org. 156589 IN A 63.175.98.30 ns2.dhs.org. 156589 IN A 202.77.181.57 ;; Query time: 93 msec ;; SERVER: 65.102.83.43#53(ns2.granitecanyon.com) ;; WHEN: Fri May 10 13:57:21 2002 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 101 Upon seeing this, I became conserned that I didn't get what I was expecting (which was the SOA record for my domain). Since it was late at night, and there was no trafic to my box for a while according to my logs, I decided to shut down my primary dns and do some experimenting. After shutting down my bind, the first thing I did was: dig romualt.dhs.org -t SOA and got a time out error from dig. Then, I tried accessing my new site. lynx http://www.romualt.dhs.org and was informed by lynx that the site could not be found, even though apache was still running. Next, I got into my remote unix account, and tried to access linserver.romualt.dhs.org by telnetting to it on a certain port. This worked fine. Then, I reactivated my primary dns, and things were fine. Does this mean that zone transfers are not taking place between my primary and secondary DNS servers? I was under the impression that my allow transfer directives in /etc/named.conf were fine, since I wrote them according to the docs, and since named didn't complain. Maybe it would be best if someone experienced was willing to have a look at my named.conf and zone files to let me know what I screwed up. If anyone is willing to do that, please e-mail me privately. Also, if anyone would like to let me know what you think about http://www.romualt.dhs.org , please do so. I'd be interested in getting some comments. Thanks. Greg
