DNS Zone Transfers to secondary zones fails

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I have two 2000 basic domain controllers. One of which has the primary AD integrated DNS zone and several other primary zones. I want to set up backup secondary zones on my other domain controller and perform zone transfers from all non AD primary zones. I have tried everything under the sun, but the zone transfers fail. I have listed both name servers in the name servers tab. I have also tried setting zone transfers from any server. What is the trick to this?

 

[J.C. Hornbeck [MSFT]]

What error gets logged in the DNS event log when the zone transfer fails?

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I have two 2000 basic domain controllers. One of which has the primary AD

integrated DNS zone and several other primary zones. I want to set up
backup secondary zones on my other domain controller and perform zone
transfers from all non AD primary zones. I have tried everything under the
sun, but the zone transfers fail. I have listed both name servers in the
name servers tab. I have also tried setting zone transfers from any server.
What is the trick to this?

 

[Ace Fekay [MVP]]

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Nothing is getting logged in DNS events or any other event logs. And
of course, in the right pane of the MGT console for that secondary
zone, all I get is "The DNS server encountered an error while
attempting to load the zone . The transfer of zone data from master
failed". In the zone properties > General tab, status shows
"expired". I also tried changing the secondary server's TCP config
to point it's DNS to the primary server. Tested nslookup on the
primary zone was OK.

Is there a firewall between the machines?Tried to allow zone transfers to
that specific IP?

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Ace

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Ace Fekay, MCSE 2000, MCSE+I, MCSA, MCT, MVP
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