Secondary and multiple IPs

[Chris H]

My secondary DNS server has multiple IP address'. I have set it to listen on
only one. I have also set my primary with multiple Ips but set to listen on
only one. However the zone transfer will not work unless I manually set all
the IP address' of the secondary server in the zone transfer tab of the
primary and not just the one it is listening on.

Also on the primary, it is only listening on the one IP however whenever I
add a new zone it show the server's address and domain name as the first
name server and on the name server that is allocated to that Ip.

Is this right or am I missing something?

 

[Jonathan de Boyne Pollard]

CH> [...] am I missing something?

Yes. You are missing that "listening for connections" is not the same as
"initiating a connection with". When your slave server comes to initiate a
DNS/TCP connection with the master, in order to perform "zone transfer"
database replication, it is irrelevant what IP address that slave server is
_listening_ on.

The operating system will choose which IP address the slave server will use
when initiating "zone transfer" database replication with the master. Find
out what IP address that is, and configure that in the master server's access
control list.