Zone transfers Failed

[Russell Peterson]

I have setup a new Win2000 server as a backup DNS server.
It is functioning fine with it's own Primary Zones, but
when I setup secondary zones from another of our DNS
servers ( Win2000 ) the initial transfer fails. I can run
nslookup ls from the box and see a transfer but cannot
get my new DNS backup server to receive a secondary zone
transfer.


Russ

 

[SteveC]

I have setup a new Win2000 server as a backup DNS server.
It is functioning fine with it's own Primary Zones, but
when I setup secondary zones from another of our DNS
servers ( Win2000 ) the initial transfer fails. I can run
nslookup ls from the box and see a transfer but cannot
get my new DNS backup server to receive a secondary zone
transfer.


Russ

Hello,

Have you checked if the primary DNS zone allows a zone transfer to
your DNS backup server?

regards,

SteveC
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[William Stacey]

1) Make sure you allow the IP of your secondary as an allowed secondary for
XFR. See the Zone Transfer tab under the Primary zone's Properties in the
MMC. Open it up to any server to simplify your testing (change after to
only allow NSs in the list.)
2) Delete the secondary zone on the other server. Run your dig or
"nslookup -d zonename.com" from the secondary at a command prompt to verify
you can do an XFR. After that, recreate the secondary zone pointing it to
the primaries IP.

 

[Ace Fekay [MVP]]

Have you tried re-creating the zone? Sometimes I find that helpful when it
happens (yes it has happened to me too). As long as you have zone tranfers
allowed to the new server and the zone is spelled correctly and the Master
IP is set right, it should pretty much work.

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Regards,
Ace

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Microsoft Windows MVP - Active Directory