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DNS Zone Transfer Failure to Secondary

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by jmacdonald

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We have 7 forward lookup Zones, a Standard Primary and Standard Secondary DNS Servers (Win 2K). Recently the zone transfers from the Master to the Secondary have started failing randomly for the first 2 zones only. It seems to happen at random intervals. Here is the error...
Event Type: Error
Event Source: DNS
Event Category: None
Event ID: 6527
Date: 25/08/2002
Time: 11:30:58
User: N/A
Computer: Whatever
Description:

Zone whatever.com expired before it could obtain a successfulzone transfer or update from a master server acting as its source for the zone. The zone has been shut down.

However the other 5 zones are not experincing any problems. John

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by ireneb

Verify that the primary server is operating properly by pinging its IP address or using the nbtstat utility. If the primary server is off-line, the zone transfer cannot take place. When the primary server is restarted, all addresses included in the Notify list for the specified zone will be contacted and a zone transfer will take place automatically. If the secondary server's IP address is not configured in the Notify list, stop and restart the secondary DNS server. The secondary server will then poll the primary server for a zone transfer.

by jmacdonald

Thanks Irene,

The DNS is setup like you have described. It is still happening randomly. It will work for awhile then just stop, while the other 5 zones keep working fine. I have not modified the TTL either.

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