<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi all,<div><br></div><div>I configured my primary DNS server to host a particular record:</div><div><br></div><div><b>/etc/bind/named.conf</b></div><div>....</div><div><div>zone "<a href="http://mydomain.com">mydomain.com</a>" IN { </div><div> type master; </div><div> file "<a href="http://mydomain.com">mydomain.com</a>"; </div><div> allow-update { none; }; </div><div>}; </div></div><div>...</div><div><br></div><div><b>/var/bind/<a href="http://mydomain.com">mydomain.com</a></b></div><div><div>$TTL 4h</div><div>@ IN SOA <a href="http://mydomain.com">mydomain.com</a>. alex. mydomain.com. (</div><div> 201206213; serial, todays date + todays serial #</div><div> 8H ; refresh, seconds</div><div> 2H ; retry, seconds</div><div> 4W ; expire, seconds</div><div> 1D ) ; minimum, seconds</div><div>;</div><div> NS [my external ip]. ; Inet Address of name server</div><div> NS [secondary dns server]. ; Inet Address of name server</div><div> MX 10 mailhost ; Primary Mail Exchanger</div><div>;</div><div> A 10.10.10.10</div><div>www IN A 10.10.10.10</div></div><div>...</div><div><br></div><div><div><div><b>dig @</b>[my external ip]<b> </b><a href="http://mydomain.com">mydomain.com</a></div><div>...</div><div>;; QUESTION SECTION:</div><div>;<a href="http://mydomain.com">mydomain.com</a>.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>IN<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>A</div><div><br></div><div>;; ANSWER SECTION:</div><div><a href="http://mydomain.com">mydomain.com</a>.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>14400<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>IN<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>A<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>10.10.10.10</div><div><br></div><div>;; AUTHORITY SECTION:</div><div><a href="http://mydomain.com">mydomain.com</a>.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>14400<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>IN<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>NS<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>[my external ip].</div><div><a href="http://mydomain.com">mydomain.com</a>.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>14400<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>IN<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>NS<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>[secondary dns server].</div><div><br></div><div>;; Query time: 60 msec</div><div>;; SERVER: 203.59.39.207#53(203.59.39.207)</div><div>;; WHEN: Thu Jun 21 14:46:33 2012</div><div>;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 123</div><div><br></div></div></div><div>However the secondary server is not picking up the domain. Is there anything I missed. I had this working for quite a few years, but it stopped some time ago. Not really sure when though. </div><div><br></div><div>I tried adding various configuration changes to set the transfer and notify by adding:</div><div><div><br></div><div> allow-update { none; };</div><div> allow-transfer { [secondary dns server]; };</div><div> notify yes;</div><div> also-notify { [secondary dns server]; };</div></div><div><br></div><div>but none of this has resolved my problem.</div><div><br></div><div>This used to work, but for some reason no longer does. I suspect it is a problem on my dns registrars side, but it could also be an update to bind.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div> </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></body></html>